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AN ALMANACK FOR

BOSTONIANS

1939

ALMANACK
BOSTONIANS

1939

BEING
A TRULY AMAZING AND EDIFYING

COMPENDIUM

of fact and fancy, designed primarily for the DELECTATION of
those who live within the Shadow of the Bulfrnch dome, but
one which may be used with Profit and Pleasure by
dwellers in the outer Darkness of Cambridge, Somer-
ville, Chelsea, Newton, and even more OUT-
LANDISH PLACES, the whole compiled
in a most Prim and Scholarly fashion

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Preface: Muriel E. Hawks

Almanacker: Alban H. Peterson

DelverSy Scriveners and Poetasters: Mary F. Clarke, William
FitzGerald, Frank Gallagher, Alden Kimball, Bertha
Peppeard, Gladys Rhodes, Russell Seaver, Harry E.
Wheeler, Elmer Willard

FOR THE FEDERAL ART PROJECT IN
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Delineator: Curtis Smith Hamilton

Excuse it, please , , .

The Almanack cannot prophesy with certainty the dates
of many events in 1939 for which sponsors have made,
as we go to press, only tentative plans. It would be ad-
visable to verify times and places, either in the news-
papers or through the organizations concerned.

WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION

Harry L. Hopkins, Administrator

Ellen S. Woodward, Assistant Administrator

Henry G. Alsberg, Director of the Federal Writers' Project

STUFF AND NONSENSE

Somehow the impression has got about that Bostonians are a bit on
the old-fashioned side. We, gentle reader, we your Almanackers, admit
the charge, even affirm it complacently. We prefer the Boston skyline, we
delight in our desultory streets, and there's a celestial aura emanating
from the Watch and Ward Society that sanctifies our baser life. Swing,
the Lambeth Walk, the curl-it-up-on-top coiffure — ^we have these, too,
albeit against our better judgment; and when it comes to saying the
Boston mind, like the Back Bay hat, is an anachronism — well, a joke's
a joke, but let's talk things over. Now in Maine or Vermont

A reiterated phrase brought on this mood of introspection. "0
temporal 0 mores!" There's a motto for an Almanack, there's even a one-
line review of it for a lazy critic. It turned out, in fact to be a theme-
song, for the merriest Almanacker who whistled as he worked — after he'd
finished the morning paper — ^found his tune slowing to the dirge tempo
and the Latin rhythm.

The times and customs, in this late summer of 1938, would steal the
smile from any Hebe's lips — or was it cheeks? — and even Puck would
cease his capers. Delving into the lore of bygone years, we decided that
we old-fashioned duffers can take our escape literature as straight as Paul
Bunyan took his whiskey. We invite you, therefore, to consider the amiable
follies of other days and the pleasing peccadilloes of our forebears. We
shall remind you, too, of your engagements for the year — to meet the
spring at Arnold Arboretum; to say it with — ^well, a check will do nicely
— on Christmas and Commencement Days, not to mention March 15th in
case you're doing better this year.

In an Almanack, bits broken off from time are jumbled about in a
kaleidoscope pattern; we can arrange them for you to suit our humor.
But time, alas, forms also a pattern of its own, known as the seasons,
and about these we can do nothing save to warn you that Mark Twain
was right. Since William Blackstone first rode his shivering bull across
the "Comon Feilde" Bostonians have been weather-conscious — and the
weather keeps right on hitting new highs and new lows any old time at
all. It even throws in a tropical hurricane to prove there could be some-
thing new under the New England sun.

Then there's that concomitant of time, — ^tide, and you have been
reliably informed that the twain will wait for no man. Hence our table
of high tides, to insure that your summer dip be taken at the Zenith. We
give you, too, the signs of the Zodiac. (On second thought, we'll give you
all but Pisces; Boston ought to keep a lien on that one.)

Facts and fancies, a cobweb or two for the antiquarian, data and do-
funnies, mix them up, season judiciously, savor with tolerance — and there
you have an Almanack. If there's anything fishy about it, don't blame us.
It's the Boston Cod.

M. E. H.

JANUARY

This is a song to applaud the New Year,
Because it is human to deplore the result
Of any period of time that is definitely ult.,
And there is something a whole lot cheerier
Thinking times will get better as they get
New Yearier.

Sun rises: 7:12 High water: 6:40 A.M.

sets: 4:22 7:12 P.M.

SUNDAY. Feast of the Circumcision — Tebeth (Jewish) — New Year's
Day (not a legal holiday in Massachusetts until 1918) * ♦ ♦ Sad, but
true — no really effective, quick cure for that hung over feeling has ever
been discovered. * * * Flag of the "United Colonies" (13 alternate red
and white stripes with crosses of St. George and St. Andrew) first raised
by Gen. Washington at Cambridge in 1776. * * * William Lloyd Gar-
rison, on this day in 1831, released the first issue of The Liberator,

Breathes there a man with soul so dead
As never to have had a whopping head?

2 Sun rises: 7:12 High water: 7:34 A.M.

sets: 4:23 8:08 P.M.

MONDAY. Weather: Uncertain, with variable changes, * * * Paint-
ings of Eastern Temple and Tomb relief by Joseph Lindon Smith on ex-
hibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts until Feb. 2. * * * On this
day in 1788, John Quincy Adams had fun. He "passed the evening at Mr.
Frazer's with gentlemen and gay ladies. We played pawns; a number of
pledges were given all round, and kissing was the only condition on which
they were redeemed. Ah! What kissing."

3 Sun rises: 7:12 High water: 8:27 A.M.

sets: 4:24 9:02 P.M.

TUESDAY. Tonight and every Tuesday night thru March 21 the Boston
Bruins play ice hockey at the Boston Garden, * * * Dorchester became
part of Boston this day in 1870. * * * Fine example of delicacy in ad-
vertising this day in 1895 when the Herald printed "Boxing lessons by
famous New York Prof.; no hard hitting; elegant new parlors; reason-
able rates; ravishing accommodations." * * * First women members of
the General Court were being shown to their seats in 1923.

4 Sun rises: 7:12 High water: 9:21 A.M.

sets: 4:25 9:56 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. In 1850, the city was feeling pretty blue over the "Mor-
tality Bill" for the year preceding, when, due to a cholera epidemic, more
than 5300 good Bostonians had gone to the Happy Hunting Grounds.
* * * The Transcript saw portents of a better day, however, in the estab-
lishment of "a new line of coaches, connecting East Boston Ferry and
Dover Street. The Omnibuses are all new and certainly are among the
most beautiful specimens of omnibus architecture that we have ever seen."

Sun rises:
sets:

7:12
4:26

High water:

10:14 A.M.
10:51 P.M.

^THURSDAY. Professor Alan Wace of Cambridge University, lectures
*on *'Sparta^^ at the Fogg Art Museum today. * * * This is bad weather
for colds — and it was away back in 1660 when John Hull entered in his
diary under this date, "The Lord was pleased to chasten his people with
an epidemical cold. It seized upon most very gently. Yet some died."
* * * A big wind and fifteen inches of snow on this day in 1877.

Sun rises:
sets:

7:12
4:27

High water;

11:08 A.M.
11:43 P.M.

FRIDAY. Mass. Selectmen's Ass'n begin a two-day session at the State
House today. * * * Wrestling tonight at Boston Garden. * * * An-
other fine example of delicacy in advertising on this day in 1895 when the
Herald printed "If you look ugly and horrible, get a new face from John
H. Woodbury. Pug noses indicating 'scrappy' personalities are changed
to aquiline ones natural to persons of sweet preposessing dispositions.
Get our new beauty pamphlet and hurry up!"

Sun rises:

sets:

7:12
4:28

High water: 11:58 A.M.

SATURDAY. Weather: Cold, with decreasing light late in the day,
* * * On this day in 1856 everything seemed to happen at once to Henry
Thoreau. First he cut his toe and then he was knocked over by a hen and
her chicks. * * * In 1862 the Ninth Connecticut was passing through
Boston on its way to war. * * * The original Siamese Twins (Chang
and Eng) were here and on view in 1866.

Startling and Amusing. Jan. 5, 1850.
Theophilus Fiske will lecture and ex-
periment at the Melodeon upon the
newly discovered science of Electro-
Biology or the Electrical Science of
Life, every evening except Thursday
and Saturday at 7^/^ o'clock. The ex-
periments will be made upon persons
in a perfectly wakeful state, who volun-
tarily come forward from the audience;
their voluntary motions will be en-
tirely controlled; their sight, hearing,
memory taken away and instantly re-
stored; the taste of pure water will be
changed to that of honey, vinegar, milk,
wormwood, etc. Single ticket 25^. Gen-
tlemen and ladies 50^. 8 tickets $1.00.

JANUARY

The second week of the brand new year
The Inventory Sales are here,
We plainly see our resolutions
Were either snares or else delusions.

Sun rises: 7:12 High water: 12:36 A.M.

sets: 4:29 12:54 P.M.

SUNDAY. Weather: There'll be some today all right. * * * Richard
Crooks sings at Jordan Hall, * * * In 1867, Dentist J. R. Dillingham
was waxing lyrical over "Nitrous Oxyd Gas," which "Never causes sick-
ness at the stomach and will make you as gay as any lark while I pull
your teeth." ♦ ♦ * If you were in Louisiana, you'd be celebrating Jack-
son Day.

Sun rises: 7:12 High water: 1:27 A.M.

sets: 4:30 1:47 P.M.

MONDAY. Winter term, Boston Center for Adult Education begins.
* * * On this day in 1632, it was recorded: "Mr. Oliver, a right Godly
man, and elder of the Church of Boston, having three or four of his sons,
all very young, cutting down wood upon the Neck, one of them, being
about fifteen years old, had his brains beaten out with the fall of a tree
which he had felled. The good old father called his wife and went to
prayer, and bare it with much patience and honor."

Sun rises: 7:12 High water: 2:22 A.M.

sets: 4:31 2:43 P.M.

TUESDAY. Dr. Axel Boethius will lecture on "The Architecture of
Imperial Rome and its Importance for Medieval Times" today at the
Fine Arts Museum. ♦ * * The "man who cared" was paying more and
more attention to shoe and knee buckles in 1737. * * * Town of Chelsea
divorced from Boston this day in 1739. * * * In 1850, the Transcript
reported that at least twenty acres of sleighs and horses were to be seen
skimming around and about the Cattle Fair Hotel in Brighton. And not
a pair of skis in the crowd.

Sun

rises :

7:12

High water:

3:17 A.M.

sets:

4:32

3:40 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Ice Follies at Boston Garden today until the 16th. ♦ * ♦
In 1719 John Jekyll, Esq., was looking high and low for his seventeen
year old negro man-servant Caesar who had decamped attired in "a Pea
Jacket and a Child's new Hatt." * * * On this day in 1798 the sacred
Cod was first hoisted into position over the Speaker's desk in the brand
new State House. * * * Fire caused $40,000 damage to the new 26 story
courthouse building in 1938.

Sun rises:
sets:

7:12
4:33

High water: 4:14 A.M.
4:40 P.M.

THURSDAY. Commonwealth Women's Orchestra and Madrigal Singers
at Sanders Theatre this afternoon. * * * In 1867 the Boston Gas Co.
was leading the way to a fuller life with "The Automatic Gas Machine.
The grandest thing you've ever seen. Just turn a crank, spark, crash and
flash! The gas is lit without an ash!" * * * Point to remember: The
exact position of the apex of the State House dome is 42°21'29.596"
North Latitude; 71°3'51.040" West Longitude.

Sun rises: 7:11
sets: 4:34

High water: 5:12 A.M.
5:41 P.M.

FRIDAY. Weather: Colder, with increasing coldness, ♦ * * Boston
Symphony plays in afternoon at Symphony Hall. * * ♦ This is an un-
lucky day to have accidents on. * ♦ * All but the outer walls of Faneuil
Hall burned this day in 1761. * * * Point to remember : There are about
100 synagogues, Hebrew schools and community buildings devoted ex-
clusively to Jewish activities within the Greater Boston area.

Sun rises:
sets:

7:11
4:35

High water: 6:11 A.M.
6:42 P.M.

SATURDAY. Symphony this evening at Symphony Hall. * * * In
1832 the Transcript, after a good deal of thought, defined a "gentleman"
thus: "He gets up leisurely, breakfasts comfortably, reads the paper
regularly, dresses fashionably, eats a tart gravely, talks insipidly, dines
considerably, drinks superfluously, kills time indifferently, sups elegantly,
goes to bed stupidly and lives uselessly."

When the French fleet under the
Count d'Estaigne dropped anchor in the
harbor in 1778, there was a great to-do.
The Count and his officers were royally
entertained by the town in general and
by the Hancocks in particular. For one
grand party attended by three hundred
guests, Mrs. Hancock sent her servants
out with instructions to "milk every cow
on the' Common." That both the French-
men and the Hancocks were held in high
esteem may be deduced from the fact
that there were no complaints.

JANUARY

The Symphony

Friday's attendance is bristling with Aryans

Arriving from Wellesley with octogenarians

Dainty, immaculate, but somewhat diminished

By fifty-odd years of Schubert's "Unfinished."

I (^ Sun rises: 7:10 High water: 7:09 A.M.

X ^^J sets: 4:36 7:43 P.M.

SUNDAY. Kirsten Flagstad sings at Symphony Hall. * * * American
Folk Singers are at the Harvard Club Auditorium. * * * Telegraphic
communication between Boston and Springfield opened this day in 1847.
* * * In 1919, a 2,000,000 gallon North End molasses tank exploded,
killing nine, injuring 43 seriously, destroying $600,000 in property and
flooding adjoining streets with the worst mess ever seen in the city. * • ♦
On this day in 1931 the last trolley car to make the trip from Boston to
Worcester completed its run.

Sun rises: 7:10 High water: 8:05 A.M.

sets: 4:37 8:40 P.M.

MONDAY. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conductor,
plays this evening at Symphony Hall. * * * Worst wind and rainstorm
colonists had seen this day in 1639. "The Indians near Aquiday being
Pawwawing in the tempest, the devil came and fetched away five of them."

* * * In 1863 there was a great shortage of coin at this time and postage
stamps were being widely used to make change. * * * At midnight in
1920 the National Prohibition Law went into what was commonly be-
lieved to be effect.

1" X Sun rises: 7:10 High water: 8:56 A.M.

X sets: 4:38 9:28 P.M.

TUESDAY. Mr. Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra again
this afternoon at Symphony Hall. * * * Hockey at the Garden tonight.

* * * Benjamin Franklin born in 1706. Baptized in Old South Meeting
House next day. 82 years later he said, "The Boston manner, the turn of
phrase, and even the tone of voice and accent and pronunciation all please,
and seem to revive and refresh me." How true! How true!

Sun rises: 7:09 High water: 9:42 A.M.

sets: 4:39 10:14 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Eugenia Buxton is at Symphony Hall. * * ♦ Dan'l
Webster born 157 years ago today. * * * In 1908, Fred Stone was at the
Globe with Hamlin and Mitchell's The Wizard of Oz and Harvard stu-
dents were petitioning for instruction in Esperanto. We know where Fred
Stone is, but what ever did become of Esperanto?

Sun rises:
sets:

7:09
4:41

High water:

10:24 A.M.
10:54 P.M.

THURSDAY. Weather: Cooler, with a low pressure area in the big toes.

* * * Professional Wrestling tonight at Boston Garden, ♦ * * Edgar
Allan Poe was born in Boston to strolling players on this day in 1809.

* * * The town watched great flocks of geese flying north on this day in
1869. North, mind you.

Sun rises: 7:08
sets: 4:42

High water: 11:03 A.M.
11:32 P.M.

FRIDAY. St. Agnes Eve. * * * This is a Symphony afternoon. ♦ ♦ ♦
The proper brand of Mumbo-Jumbo is believed to enable virgins of tender
years to catch a glimpse of future husbands on this night. * * * On this
day in 1817 one Daniel D. Britton was moanin' low in the calaboose for
chicken stealing. This was a source of satisfaction to any number of per-
sons for "He is a brawny chimney-sweep, and parades the street in a big
cap, a long stick, and a train of boys at his heels, to the great annoyance
of people."

Sun rises:
sets:

7:08
4:43

High water: 11:43 A.M.

SATURDAY. Boston Symphony this evening. Symphony Hall as usual.
* * * The Mass. Osteopathic Society is talking things over today. * * *
On this day in 1639 the Town Meeting ordered that Richard Tuttle be
responsible for "one Dorothie Bill, widdowe, a sojourner in his house"
and for "anything about her," which, we'll be bound, gave Richard some-
thing to worry about for the rest of the winter.

Reader, consider for a moment the
sad case of Edward Palmer, who in the
year of 1639 was commissioned by the
town to contrive a pair of stocks which
might properly be used for the punish-
ment of miscreants. When, by dint of
much ingenuity and diligence, the stocks
were finished. Palmer presented his bill
to the authorities for the sum of one
pound, thirteen shillings and seven
pence. This "exhorbitant" bill so in-
furiated the town government that he
was slapped into his own brand new
stocks and then fined about five dollars
for his impudence.

JANUARY

In all humility

That's all I claim for Boston, — ^that it is

the thinking center of the continent, and

therefore of the planet.

0. W. Hohnes

^? ^/ Sun rises: 7:07 High water: 12:10 A.M.

C^HJk sets: 4:44 12:20 P.M.

SUNDAY. Federal Music Project's Madrigal Singers will sing some
madrigals at the Art Museum at 2:30, * * * On this day in 1788 John
Quincy Adams took himself to Sawyer's Tavern "ahout three miles off,
and there danced till between twelve and one." * * * In 1795, after a
good deal of hemming and hawing, Isaac Bickerstaff finally committed
himself to the flat statement, "This weather is agreeable to some but dis-
agreeable to many." * * * In 1915 the towering new Custom House
was dedicated.

^ ^i Sun rises: 7:06 High water: 12:46 A.M.

fcJVJ sets: 4:46 12:57 P.M.

MONDAY. Community Fund Campaign starts today, ends Feb, 8th,

* * * Annual Meeting Massachusetts Auto Club, * * * It was so cold
on this day in 1697 that Mr. Sewall's clock stopped — "Which it has not
done in many years." * ♦ ♦ First Bureau of Labor in the nation estab-
lished by Massachusetts on this day in 1869. * * * Boston's birth rate
dropped from 24.7 in 1927 to 19.89 in 1934 but has been holding steady
since then. It was 19.79 in 1937.

\^ y\ Sunrises: 7:06 High water: 1:25 A.M.

itJ jT sets: 4:47 1:37 P.M.

TUESDAY. 17th Annual Boston Shoe Show opens today at the Statler,

* * * In 1784 a blazing star was visible on this day. * ♦ ♦ Exactly
three years later those of Shays' rebels who had been captured were
brought to town. ♦ * ♦ Boston police called at the riot during shoe-
makers' strike in Lynn in 1860. * * * In 1901 the first subway and
elevated trains ran on this day.

^^ ^i Sun rises: 7:05 High water: 2:04 A.M.

£Jk\J sets: 4:49 2:18 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Charles Sterling of the Louvre will lecture on "French
Painting of the 17th century," today at the Fine Arts Museum. ♦ ♦ ♦^
The Trustees of Public Reservations get together today. * * * At this
time in 1657 a complaint was made against the son of Goodwife Samon
for living without a calling and it was ordered that if his mother "dispose
nott of him" before the next Town Meeting, "then the Townsmen would
do it." * * » A Liberty Pole at the corner of Essex and Orange Streets
dedicated on this day in 1793. It was decorated with the horns of an ox
which had been roasted whole as a part of a French liberty celebration
the day before.

^^K^ Sunrises: 7:04 High water: 2:44 A.M.

£i^\J sets: 4:50 3:02 P.M.

THURSDAY. On this day in 1652 Richard Wooddy was admitted as an
inhabitant "upon promise not to be offensive by his trayd." * * * In
1850 there was a lot of talk about the proposal of Boston to annex
Roxbury. ♦ ♦ * The ladies were wearing trains big enough to step on
but not big enough to see in 1899. * * * On this day in 1915 the Boston-
San Francisco telephone service was just one day old.

'^ " X Sun rises: 7:03 High water: 3:28 A.M.

£mM JL sets: 4:51 3:50 P.M.

FRIDAY. Symphony Concert this afternoon at Symphony Hall, * * *
Trudi Schoop and her Ballet will kick a few high ones at Jordan Halt
tonight. * * * This day in 1689 was the last for Captain James Hawking
and seven of his piratical crew. * * * In 1852 the Traveller regretted
to say that anti-slavery societies were "perniciously active again" while
in 1881 the Transcript was sorry to report, "In New York the enormous
bills of the undertakers surpass the boldest efforts of the most reckless
and imaginative plumbers. It is very much the same in Boston."

Tip to Parents
Auspicious portent of renown,
To be born in Boston town.

^^C3 Sunrises: 7:02 High water: 4:17 A.M.

i^^J sets: 4:52 4:43 P.M.

SATURDAY. For the first time in 24 hours, the Boston Symphony will
play at Symphony Hall. ♦ * * Knights of Columbus Track Meet today in
Boston Garden. * * * In 1709, Samuel Sewall "discoursed the Gov-
ernour about giving a Deed of Brooklin." But the Governour was busy
worrying about the news from Albany that "the French of Canaday were
coming against us." * ♦ * Historian Prescott died this day in 1859.
* * * Moody and Sankey were beginning a long meeting at the Taber-
nacle on Tremont Street in 1877.

On March 4, 1890, the justices of the
Superior Court submitted to the State
Senate a report stating that the Com-
monwealth, as a result of negotiations
begun in the days of the Pilgrims and
Puritans, still owed the representatives
of the Dudley Indians the sum of $4851.

JANUARY

Ode on Intimations of Bad Weather

As Recollected from Early Morning in Scollay Square

In January

My nose is red
My hands are blue
I love winter —
The hell I do.

^^Wf Sunrises: 7:01 High water: 5:09 A.M.

•-Jvy sets: 4:54 5:41 P.M.

SUNDAY. Weather: Cooler with decreasing coal. * * ♦ 226 years ago
tonight, Ephraim Bacon, "going over the Neck with his sled, wandered
to the left hand toward Dorchester and was frozen to death." * ♦ *
This day in 1908 the twenty-five-year-old world-famous prima donna
Geraldine Farrar was given a magnificent reception by her home town
folks in Melrose.

Sun rises: 7:00 High water: 6:06 A.M.

sets: 4:55 6:41 P.M.

MONDAY. Weather: Less cooler today. * ♦ • Bom 57 years ago today
Franklin D. Roosevelt. * * * On this day in 1888 died Botanist Asa
Gray at Cambridge. * * * Emile (Every Day in Every Way) Coue was
in town to set up a clinic in 1923. * * * First Massachusetts Unemploy-
ment Compensation checks mailed out this day in 1938. ♦ ♦ ♦ Point to
remember: Day after tomorrow comes February, also cold.

^ I Sun rises: 6:59 High water: 7:05 A.M.

Vii^ JL sets: 4:56 7:43 P.M.

TUESDAY. New England Nurserymen's Ass'n meets today and tomor-
row. ♦ * * Black Bass season closes today, durn it. ♦ ♦ * An earth-
quake about 7 P.M. in 1660. * * * On this day in 1834 the Boston Daily
Mail reported that Mary Blake, arraigned in police court on a morals
charge, "Modestly hung her head and inspected proceedings through a
hole in her calash, but it was all mock, as she and her companion, Cath-
erine Jennings . . . were both steeped to the eyes in infamy."

FEBRUARY

ISun rises: 6:58 High water: 8:03 A.M.

sets: 4:57 8:41 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. At 10 A.M. on this day in 1843 there was a big anti-
slavery meeting at Faneuil Hall, which culminated in a procession to the
State House where a petition containing 62,791 names was presented to
the Governor. * * * After two years of hard work, James Butler of East
Boston had reduced his weight from 410 to 204 pounds in 1902.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:57

4:57

High water:

9:00 A.M.
9:37 P.M.

THURSDAY. Ground Hog Day— Candlemas, too. * * * 400 Drury
Lane players at the Colonial in "The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast" in

\ 1903. ♦ ♦ ♦ Point to remember: There are some 360,000 registered
voters in the City of Boston all of whom have convinced the right people

f that they have lived in the State one year and in the city six months.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:56
5:00

High water: 9:56 A.M.
10:32 P.M.

FRIDAY. Oddly enough, the Boston Symphony Orchestra plays this
afternoon at Symphony Hall. ♦ * * Camellia Show at Horticultural
Hall. * * * First real theatre in the city, the "Old Federal Street,"
opened this day in 1794 with "The Tragedy of Gustavus Vasa Erickson,
the Deliverer of Sweden." The prologue was written by Robert Treat
Paine, "The Signer." * * * The Evans Wing of the Museum of Fine
Arts was opened today in 1915.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:55
5:02

High water:

10:50 A.M.
11:24 P.M.

SATURDAY. S.K. and the hoys get hack in the groove this evening at.
Symphony Hall. ♦ * * New England Sportsmen's and Boat Show opens
at Mechanics Building today and put- puts along till the 11th. * * *
Museum of Fine Arts incorporated this day in 1870. Unique in that it has
been from the beginning supported entirely by private gifts. Its collection
of Chinese, Japanese and Indian art is unrivalled in this country — in some
respects, in the world.

In 1850, advertising copy writers
dashed off little gems like this : '^Curious
Mode of Suicide. In Paris, those tired
of life discovered a rather curious mode
of stepping out — they eat a dozen or
two hard boiled eggs, drink a quart of
the sourest claret wine, and the next
morning they are found stone dead.
Now here is something a great deal
more interesting, in way of experiments
— take a piece of silver, say a quarter of
a dollar, go to 8 State St., get a box of
Russia Salve, and should you ever get
scalded or burnt, or have sores, corns,
piles or bruises, you will be safe enough
and bless the name of Redding & Co.
Boston."

FEBRUARY

Where?
We say the cows laid out Boston. Well,
there are worse surveyors.

Emerson

Sun rises: 6:54 High water: 11:44 A.M.

sets: 5:03

SUNDAY. Septuagesima Sunday. * * * Rudolph Serkin at Symphony
Hall. * * * On this day in 1631 arrived the ship Lyon, carrying some
badly-needed provisions and Mr. Roger Williams, among other pas-
sengers. The Lyon had been out from Bristol since December 1, 1630.
* * * It was thawing in the city in 1843 and the Mail reported that the
snow was coming off the roofs in avalanches. "And when warning was
given that one of these avalanches was coming, woe betide the man in the
way of escape. One poor sufferer was pushed into the gutter by the sweet-
est-mouthed young lady we have looked at this winter."

Sun rises: 6:53 High water: 12:15 A.M.

sets: 5:04 12:36 P.M.

MONDAY. In 1705 this day marked the end, after 94 years, of "Old
Widow Wiat," who "assisted as midwife at the birth of upward of one
thousand and one hundred children." * * * In 1930 the Massachusetts
State Senate decided on this day not to allow women to do jury duty.

X Sun rises: 6:52 High water: 1:06 A.M.

* sets: 5:05 1:29 P.M.

TUESDAY. Hockey tonight — Boston Garden. ♦ * * On this afternoon
in 1901, that sterling Thespian, "Ruby Robert" Fitzsimmons, was starring
in a sensitive little opus hight The Honest Blacksmith at the Opera House.
* * * In 1903, John F. Barry, Boston chess champion, was losing again
— durn it — to Dr. Emmanuel Lasker at the Boston Chess Club.

Sun rises: 6:50 High water: 1:58 A.M.

sets: 5:07 2:22 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. National Boy Scout Day. * * * On this day in 1851
the press took notice of the fact that John Hudson "the accomplished
teacher of self-defense and pistol shooting, has taken rooms in Washington
St., a few doors above Winter." * * * Point to remember: German
astronomer. Dr. Kurt Meissner, predicts the end of the world sometime
this year. From bumping a comet.

High water: 2:50 A.M.
3:16 P.M.

9 Sun rises: 6:49

sets: 5:08

THURSDAY. Two day Interdenominational Missionary Conference be-
[gins at Old South Church. * * * In 1870 the first Annual Police Ball
was held on this day in Faneuil Hall. This caused quite a stir, but nothing
comparable to the excitement on the force this day in 1901 when Com-
missioner Harry F. Adams ordered all policemen to shave and shine
their shoes daily. ♦ • * This day in 1928 General Pershing orated to
quite a crowd at the Copley Plaza. When his notes got a little mixed, he
whispered to reporters, "Wait till I get this extemporaneous speech of
mine in order." ♦ ♦ * Coldest day ever recorded in Boston in 1934 —
18 degrees below zero.

I 11 Sun rises: 6;48 High water: 3:44 A.M.

X V/ sets: 5:09 4:13 P.M.

FRIDAY. Weather: Increasing. * * * The Suffolk Bank of Boston de-
cided not to accept the bills of the Lancaster Bank of New Hampshire on
this day in 1842. * * * As far as we can see, this is a very fine day to
stay in bed — and think, maybe. Or maybe just stay in bed, maybe.

This world is so full of a number of things
I am sure we are all as unhappy as kings.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:47
5:10

High water:

4:40 A.M.
5:12 P.M.

SATURDAY. Weather: Bad. It's always bad on Saturday. * * * B.A.A.
Games and Track Meet at Boston Garden. ♦ * * This was a Saturday in
1681, too, and there was a "bloody-coloured eclipse of the Moon" ac-
cording to Samuel Sewall. * * * On this day in 1842, the Suffolk Bank
changed its mind and decided to accept the bills of the Lancaster Bank.
* * * In 1900 Frank P. Stone picked several crocuses from his yard in
Roxbury and optimists were predicting that "the backbone of winter is
broken."

"The Britannia is advertised to sail
and Boston Harbor is froze over. Three
days ago, Frederick Tudor, an exporter
of ice, was engaged to cut a channel
about 10 miles long. It has been accom-
plished, much to the joy of Cunard
managers, and not to the liking and
wish of Boston's harshest New York
critics and competitors for Cunard Line
business." Boston Advertiser. Feb. 3,
1844.

FEBRUARY

Twinkle, twinkle, movie star,
Your parents wonder how you are;
They haven't had a letter since
You changed your name from Prantz to
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Sun rises: 6:46 High water: 5:39 A.M.

sets: 5:11 6:14 P.M.

SUNDAY. Lincoln's Birthday, * * * In ^1901 Mrs. Trask of the
W.C.T.U. announced that she intended to ask girls as well as boys to sign
the pledge not to smoke cigarettes. Meanwhile Governor Crane was sign-
ing the "Bootblack Bill," thus permitting the happy little rascals to ply
their trade on Sunday without fear of the "Man."

Sun rises: 6:44 High water: 6:38 A.M.

sets: 5:13 7:15 P.M.

MONDAY. Died in 1728 on this day, the Rev. Cotton Mather, notable
scholar and mighty hunter-downer of Witches. ♦ ♦ ♦ We'll bet some-
body had a nasty shock when the Boston and Country Gazette for this day
in 1786 printed: "Sirs, Not long since you had a sow spaded — she
faultered several days and then died — you dress-shaved her, and carried
her to Plymouth and there sold her, and unless you make satisfaction . . .
within three weeks, your name shall be published in this paper that you
may sufiFer the ignomy you deserve. P.S. the above fact I can prove.
E.D."

Sun rises: 6:43 High water: 7:36 A.M.

sets: 5:14 8:12 P.M.

TUESDAY. 5^ Valentine's Day, ♦ * ♦ Weather: Somewhat partly with
low resistance. Mackerel skies, mebbe. ♦ ♦ * Hockey tonight — Boston
Garden. * * * This is a bad day to give way to the emotions. ♦ * ♦
Point to remember: Boston is 13.8 miles long at its longest point — from
the northern end of East Boston to the southern end of Hyde Park.

Sun rises: 6:42 High water: 8:29 A.M.

sets: 5:15 9:02 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Harvard-Dartmouth Hockey Game at Boston Garden
tonight. * * * In 1903 hard coal was down to $8 a ton from a $12 winter
peak, and the American Express Co. was getting pretty sore about people
throwing nails in the street and crippling their horses. 12 had been in-
jured in this way in the preceding ten days.

Sun rises: 6:41
sets: 5:16

High water;

9:16 A.M.
9:46 P.M.

THURSDAY. This day in 1842 was notable for two occurrences. (1)
The strongest gale of the winter, before which the city cowered — "One
poor washwoman had nothing left of a batch of clothes but a single
dickey." (2) Those who did not have to take in washing, could take in
woodcock and fresh mackerel at the Tremont Restorator. "Such a thing
was never before known in February."

Sun rises:
sets:

6:39
5:18

High water;

9:59 A.M.
10:06 P.M.

* Annual Grand Clan
In 1901 champion chest

FRIDAY. Symphony Concert this afternoon

Ball of Order of Scottish Clans tonight. * *

expansionist Sam Cohen had Harvard Medical students' eyes bulging

when he took a really deep breath, swelled up 16 inches and broke straps

of oak-tanned leather 1%" wide and %'' thick which were buckled around

his chest.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:38
5:19

High water;

10:38 A.M.
11:03 P.M.

SATURDAY. Harvard-Yale Hockey Game at Boston Garden tonight.
* * * And Dr. Koussevitzky repeats tonight at Symphony Hall. Of
course, he has some people to help him. * * * In 1842 Dr. R. H. Collyer,
"most powerful mesmerizer in U. S.," was back in town after a successful
trip to (of all places!) New Bedford. * * * This day in 1843 the Soup
and Bread Society fed more than 240 families. * ♦ ♦ A hit-and-run
sleigh driver (which is a pretty rare form of animal life, if you ask us)
got clean away up West Street this day in 1903.

Number 1 of Series 1 of our own "If
You Only Knew" Department : "Depres-
sion in trade that has so long prevailed
in this country never has been more
severely felt than now. Several failures
in the city (Boston) today of heavy
commercial houses because of present
deranged state of money matters. My,
Oh My! how long will this state of
things last? Will not the mild genial
sun of spring open better prospects for
us? Heh?" Feb. 17, 1842, Boston Daily
Mail.

FEBRUARY

That he must have loved dumb animals
Could be gathered from various sources,
For he fed the kitty every night
And went to the dogs on the horses.

E. E. 0.

Sun rises: 6:36 High water: 11:17 A.M.

sets: 5:21 11:41 P.M.

SUNDAY. Incorporated today in 1794, the Mass. Historical Society, old-
est such organization in the nation. * ♦ * "A great Illumination" this
evening in 1815 to celebrate the news of peace with England. * * * In
1840, Delano and Whitney were willing to sell ten cases of "Turkey
Opium," according to the Boston Atlas. * * * Any number of otherwise
normal persons will be going far out of their way to slide up and down
snow banks on skis today.

Sun rises: 6:35 High water: 11:53 A.M.

sets: 5:22

MONDAY. Weather: The editors cordially invite you to select your own
weather today, ♦ * * Boston Symphony Orchestra, at Symphony Hall
tonight. * ♦ * Fastest clipper ship ever built, the Lightning, was
launched from East Boston by Donald McKay in the year 1853. Her
record run of 463 nautical miles, made between noon Feb. 28 and noon
March 1, 1854, was never surpassed.

Sun rises: 6:33 High water: 12:15 A.M.

sets: 5:23 12:31 P.M.

TUESDAY. Shrove Tuesday. * * * Symphony Orchestra this afternoon
at Symphony Hall. ♦ ♦ * Hockey tonight — Boston Garden. * * * East-
ern Dog Club's two-day show opens at Mechanics Bldg. * * * General
Booth of the Salvation Army arrived in Boston in 1903. About 6:30 P.M.
as we recall it.

Sun rises: 6:32 High water: 12:52 A.M.

sets: 5:24 1:10 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Ash Wednesday. * * * Washington's Birthday — first
officially celebrated in Boston on the 100th anniversary (1832). * * *
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company^ s Reception to the Governor
at Faneuil Hall. ♦ * * Last ball at the Province House this night in
1776. * * * James Russell Lowell born in 1819 at Cambridge. * * *
In 1917, 109 Boston police were helping the U. S. Marshal seize the Ger-
man liner Kronprinzessen Cecilie.

^?^< Sunrises: 6:30 High water: 1:30 A.M.

^JkKJ sets: 5:26 1:50 P.M.

THURSDAY. Wrestling at Boston Garden tonight, again, we^re afraid,
* * * This day in 1900 a hawker on Tremont Street was ofifering for sale
a really beautiful little article — the world's finest pants stretcher. "Guar-
anteed to keep pants stretched, remove bag from the knees, and save
tailor bills." * ♦ * President Wilson, home from the Peace Conference,
landed in Boston in 1919.

Sun rises: 6:29
sets: 5:27

High water: 2:10 A.M.
2:33 P.M.

FRIDAY. Symphony concert this afternoon at Symphony HalL * * *
This was a Tuesday in 1903 and it marked the opening of Boston's first
Auto Show. There were new models on display, hill climbing, brake tests,
obstacle races, speed and control tests, parades around the hall and a
musical program. It was at Mechanics Building and lasted five days.
* * * For being bad girls during the President's speech the day before,
16 female Suffragists got 10 days in the jailhouse in 1919.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:27
5:28

High water:

2:54 A.M.
3:22 P.M.

SATURDAY. Guess who's playing at Symphony Hall tonight? ♦ * ♦
Quadrangular Track Meet — Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, at the
Garden. * * * At this time in 1734 a polar bear was on display and
drawing quite a crowd, too. * * * In 1830, the little town of Detroit was
luring many Boston emigrants.

From the Evening Post for Feb. 23,
1759 (back in the days when there were
real opportunities in Boston) : "To the
Ladies: Any young ladies between the
Age of Eighteen and Twenty-three of a
Middling stature; brown hair, regular
Features and a Lively Brisk Eye; of
Good Morals & not Tinctured with any-
thing that may sully so Distinguishable
a Form, possessed of 3 or 400 pounds
entirely at her own Disposal and where
there will be no necessity of going
through the tiresome talk of addressing
Parents and Guardians for their con-
sent; such a one, by leaving a line di-
rected for A.W. at the British Coffee
House in King Street appointing where
an interview may be had will meet a
person who flatters himself he shall not
be thought Disagreeable by any Lady
answering the above description. N.B.
Profound secrecy will be observ'd. No
trifling answers will be regarded.'*

FEBRUARY

Now March comes blustering on the scene,
Wildest of all the months, I ween,
In like a lion, out like a lamb —
Unstable as water, — scram, March, scram!

^ C^ Sun rises: 6:26 High water: 3:43 A.M.

tLXKJ sets: 5:29 4:15 P.M.

SUNDAY. First Sunday in Lent. At 5 A.M. in 1901 the tramp-freighter
Viscaina, heavily laden with sugar from the American Sugar Refinery in
South Boston, tried to negotiate the draw in the Washington Avenue
Bridge, and didn't make it. After 18" of timber were removed from the
South Boston side, the vessel squeezed through at high tide.

^^ g Sun rises: 6:24 High water: 4:37 A.M.

fcJ ^ sets: 5:30 5:15 P.M.

MONDAY. Spring Furniture Show opens today at Mechanics Building
and continues until March 4th. ♦ ♦ * Fireman's Ball — Boston Garden.
* * * Out in West Roxbury, near the comer of Washington and Grove
Streets, is a volcano which last erupted exactly 103,276,042 years ago
today. * * * "Some toothy rats gnawed a Cochituate water pipe off at
South Boston, by which a house was deluged with water," on this day in
1854, according to the Boston Bee.

^^>i Sunrises: 6:23 High water: 5:40 A.M.

£tJ^J sets: 5:32 6:18 P.M.

TUESDAY. Busch and Serkin are at Jordan Hall. * * * Mew England
Hardware Dealer's Ass'n begins a three-day session at the Statler. * ♦ *
Bainbridge and his Constitution crew were landing at Long Wharf after
the fight with the Java in 1813. ♦ ♦ * The bill for "the better education
of children employed in manufactories" was lost in the State Senate by a
"decisive vote" this day in 1844. * ♦ * Ten years later Stephen A.
Douglas was hanged in effigy on the Common with the label "S. A.
Douglas, the Benedict Arnold of 1854."

MARCH

ISun rises: 6:21 High water: 6:41 A.M.

sets: 5:33 7:21 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. On exhibition at Boston Museum of Fine Arts, "The
Sources of Modern Painting' until April 10. * * * St. David's Day — a
good day for the wearing of leeks in one's hat and the singing of
"Rhyfelgyrch gwyr Harlech." * ♦ ♦ Phineas T. Barnum was lecturing
on "How to be Happy" at Tremont Temple this day in 1870. * * * It
was so windy this day in 1918 that one man's hat was twirled aloft and
dropped on the roof of the Elk's Building. ♦ ♦ * You'll hate us for this,
but we've just got to remind you that this is the zero hour. You know?
State income tax?

Sun rises:
sets:

6:20
5:34

High water:

7:41 A.M.
8:21 P.M.

THURSDAY. Feast of Esther (Jewish). * * * In 1833 the press was
noting that the Anti-Tobacco Societies were making great progress among
those who neither smoked nor chewed. ♦ * ♦ Nellie Bly was bringing
down the house at the Hollis Street Theatre on this day in 1890.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:18
5:35

High water:

8:44 A.M.
9:16 P.M.

FRIDAY. This afternoon at Symphony Hall, the Symphony Orchestra
will give a concert. * * * Lots of Harvard graduates belonging to "the
high command of commercial life" were pretty sore about the radical
social theories being expounded by the University in 1890. * * * An
Elevated carman entered a phoney phone booth in a Roxbury drug-store
on this day in 1930 and asked for a half-pint of giggle water. The police,
who had taken over, gave him a bottle of real water and told him it was
"on the house."

Sun rises:
sets:

6:17
5:36

High water: 9:40 A.M.
10:12 P.M.

SATURDAY. This evening at Symphony Hall, . * * *

This day in 1630 from the town of Boston were banished sundry "knaves
and harlots." * * * The following year Nicholas Knopp was fined five
pounds for "taking it on himself to cure the scurvy by a water of no
value, which he sold at a very dear rate." * ♦ ♦ Boston City Charter,
drafted by Lemuel Shaw, adopted in 1822; vote: 2,797 yeas; 1,881 nays.
• * ♦ Bank Holiday in 1933.

Because we thought this date too late
We don't no more inaugurate.

H. E. W.

At the regular "Thursday Lecture" on
March 4, 1634, Mr. John Cotton started
a furious rumpus in which the clergy
of the entire colony eventually became
involved by denouncing the wearing of
veils by females. The opposition was
led by Mr. Roger Williams, who de-
clared that veils were "a necessary ap-
pendage to the attire of all modest
women" and that scriptural citations
could be quoted to prove it. At this
point Mr. John Endicott attempted to
butt in, but he was butted right out
again by Mr. Cotton, who was in no
mood for trifling,

MARCH

Port nearest Europe; our elation
Over this vaunted situation
Dwindles upon investigation.
File, pending further information.

M. E. H.
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Sun rises: 6;15 High water: 10:34 A.M.

sets: 5:38 11:03 P.M.

SUNDAY. Purim (Jewish). * * * Forum String Quartet Concert at the
Art Museum at 2:30. * * * The Boston Massacre occurred on this day
in 1770. ♦ ♦ ♦ A local inventor applied on this day in 1830 for a patent
on a self -moving cradle. "It vibrates," he confided, "by spring movement
operating a pendulum." * * * The Legislature Committee on Mercantile
Affairs held a hearing on this day in 1918 on a bill to give organized
labor representation on the directorates of all corporations. Not a single
person appeared in support of it.

Sun rises: 6:14 High water: 11:28 A.M.

sets: 5:39 11:52 P.M.

MONDAY. "Tickets in the Harvard College Lottery" were to be had on
this day in 1775 of Thomas and John Fleet in Cornhill. * * * The State
House wood furnace set the building afire on this day in 1833. Consider-
able loss. * * * A strike of telephone operators that would have held
up communications in 81 cities and towns was averted on this day in 1918.
The company granted all demands, including a minimum wage of $16 a
week.

7 Sun rises: 6:12 High water: 12:17 P.M.

sets: 5:40

TUESDAY. Mr. Samuel Grainger let it be known on this day in 1719
that he was prepared to teach, among other things, writing "in a free and
easy manner." He wished to dispel certain rumors "newly revived" con-
cerning "those dancing Phaenomenas which were never seen nor heard of
in School Hours." * * * One alderman and two councilmen submitted
for approval on this day in 1883 a supper bill for $20. No approval.

Sun rises: 6:10 High water: 12:42 A.M.

sets: 5:41 1:09 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Born this day in 1841 the late great Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, Oliver Wendell Holmes. • * * The first Boston
experiment in electrically-lighted streets was tried on this night in 1870.
* * * Boston was in second place in foreign commerce in 1908. Sounds
like the Red Sox to us.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:08
5:42

High water;

1:31 A.M.
1:58 P.M.

THURSDAY. Annual Meeting of New England Hospital Ass'n today,
tomorrow and Saturday at the Statler. * * * It was ordered on this day
in 1702 that jurymen were to be drawn from a list of those persons be-
lieved to be "proper to serve on juries." Which was sensible. * * * The
"Shoo Fly" hat was the newest fashion wrinkle in 1870. "It is tip-top and
to be worn so." * * * A 58-mile-an-hour gale in 1927.

Sun rises: 6:07
sets: 5:44

High water:

2:20 A.M.
2:51 P.M.

FRIDAY. Wrestling Matches tonight at Boston Garden. ♦ ♦ ♦ Annual
Meeting N. E, Ass'n of English Teachers , Hotel Statler. * * ♦ This day
in 1905 Enrico Caruso had the mumps, and couldn't keep his Boston en-
gagement. ♦ * ♦ $2,200,000 worth of scrip arrived at City Hall under
heavy guard, on this day in 1933. It was in three colors and very pretty,
too.

Sun rises:

sets:

6:05
5:45

High water:

3:12 A.M.
3:45 P.M.

SATURDAY. Weather: Bad. What kind of weather do you expect on
March 11? * * * Only 36 more days to Low Sunday. ♦ ♦ * James
Morgan was hanged on this day in 1686 for carrying out his threat to "run
a spit into the bowels" of a man he didn't like. Temper, temper! ♦ ♦ ♦
An earthquake was felt on the Common on this day in 1800.

"Upon the eighth of March (1631),
from after it was fair day light, until
about eight of the clock in the forenoon,
there flew over all the towns in our
plantations, so many flocks of doves,
each flock containing many thousands
and some so many that they obscured
the light, that it passeth credit, if but
the truth should be written; and the
thing was the more strange because I
scarce remember to have seen ten doves
since I came into the country; they were
all turtles as appeared by divers of
them. They flew from the north-east to
the southwest but what it portends, I
know not."

From Governor Thomas Dudley's Let-
ter to the Countess of Lincoln, March
28, 1631.

MARCH

A bad month for coughs. "A Lover of the
Mathematics" in his 1713 Almanack recom-
mended the following to stop that tickle:
"Take good Wine, Anniseed, Liquorish,
Raisins of the Sun, Figs, Noble Livewort,
Maidenhair, lucalellus, Bolsom, Sundue and
Loaf Sugar, Steep all these in the Wine and
drink Morning and Night."

I ^^ Sun rises: 6:03 High water: 4:06 A.M.

X ^J sets: 5:46 4:41 P.M.

SUNDAY. The Selectmen of Boston on this day in 1654 had "liberty to>
agree with Joseph Jynke for Ingins to carry water in case of fire, if they
see cause soe to do." The cause was there, whether or not it was "soe"
seen. The town had one hell of a fire. ♦ * ♦ The wind had its innings
on this day in 1865. "Any number of females, particularly in the salubri-
ous localities of the South End, were quite blown away."

I li Sun rises: 6:01 High water: 5:04 A.M.

X KJ sets: 5:47 5:42 P.M.

MONDAY. Stray professors, exhibiting the alleged remains of mam-
moths, mastodons, etc., were doing a fair trade around Boston in 1830.

* * * This day in 1865, 44 rebel prisoners passed through town on their
way south to be exchanged, while Judge-Advocate Bolles was here to set
up a court-martial in which, it was confidently expected, "many contrac-
tors and bounty-brokers will come to grief."

MSun rises: 5:59 High water: 6:02 A.M.

sets: 5:48 6:41 P.M.

TUESDAY. Roger Williams, formerly of these parts, obtained on this
day in 1644 a charter of incorporation for Providence and Rhode Island
plantations. * * * It was voted on this day in 1744 to "purchase the
Faneuil arms, elegantly carved and gilt by Moses Deshon, to be fixed on
the Hall." So now you know.

Whose?
Boston is a state of mind.
Mark Twain

I C^ Sun rises: 5:58 High water: 7:01 A.M.

JL '^J sets: 5:50 7:37 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Boston, convinced that better times had come, closed
the last of its soup kitchens on this day in 1855. Temporarily, that is.

* * * The House of Representatives passed a bill in 1870 to permit
cities and towns to open their libraries on the Lord's Day. ♦ ♦ ♦ The
rebuilt frigate. Constitution, was launched from the Charlestown Navy
Yard on this day in 1930. ♦ ♦ ♦ If you don't tell Mr. Morgenthau all
about it today, Mr. Morgenthau is going to be very, very angry.

Sun rises: 5:56 High water: 7:56 A.M.

sets: 5:51 8:27 P.M.

THURSDAY. William Ledro was hanged on Boston Common on this
day in 1659 for "being a Quaker." * * * The Common Council voted on
this day in 1865 to continue the ancient custom of "ringing the bells,
morning, noon and evening." * * * Peter Witt, street railway expert,
announced in 1918 that the Boston El fare could be as low as 4, or even 3,
cents. He advocated the Cleveland "service at cost system." The El has a
nice little deficit now and the fare is a dime. In case you didn't know.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:54
5:52

High water:

8:43 A.M.
9:11 P.M.

FRIDAY. St, Patrick's Day, * * * Evacuation Day, * * * This is
South Bostons day no matter how you look at it. * * * Matinee for the
Symphony Orchestra today. We know where — hut we won't tell. ♦ ♦ ♦
The Charitable Irish Society was formed on this day in 1737 by "several
gentlemen, merchants, etc. of the Irish nation, residing in Boston, for the
relief of any of that nation who may be reduced by sickness, shipwreck,
old age or other infirmities."

Sun rises: 5:52
sets: 5:53

High water:

9:29 A.M.
9:51 P.M.

SATURDAY. By a peculiar combination of fortuitous circumstances,
there is a Symphony Concert tonight. ♦ * ♦ The General Court, on this
day in 1648, expressed its alarm at the recent "visitation of witch-craft"
by entertaining a proposal to send to England for professional witch-
finders, which was certainly looking right over the heads of some fine
local talent. ♦ * ♦ Washington was in town in 1776. He dined with
James Bowdoin at the house of Mrs. Erving, called later at John Han-
cock's, and spent the remainder of the night jumping in and out of 4,308
beds, all of which are extant and for sale at a price on this day.

On March 10, 1876, Professor Alex-
ander Graham Bell had notice to vacate
the rooms he was occupying at #5
Exeter Place. Reason for the notice —
conduct unbecoming to either a scholar
or a gentleman, culminating in an In-
dian War Dance with great whooping
and stomping of feet. Reason for War
Dance, etc. — Professor B. had just
spoken the words "Mr. Watson, please
come here, I want you" into a thing
hopefully referred to as a "Telephone."
Ajid Mr, Watson heard him.

MARCH

In March 1895 the Town was suddenly
conscious that the small army of tramps and
loiterers along the waterfront had disap-
peared. An investigation of this pleasing situ-
ation revealed that they had been recruited
by an agent of the Cuban Patriot League,
who had oflfered them the life of Riley if they
would shoulder a musket when the zero hour
of the revolution came.

I Cl Sun rises: 5:51 High water: 10:09 A.M.

JL "^ sets: 5:54 10:30 P.M.

SUNDAY. One Captain Dobson, in a ship of eighty tons, double manned
and fitted for a man of war, "set forth from Boston to trade to the east-
ward" on this day in 1646. * * * By this time, unless the brewers change
the schedule again, bock beer should be available.

Many a prophet called a crack pot
Ultimately wins the jack pot,

F. G.

^^11 Sun rises: 5:49 High water: 10:48 A.M.
^J\J sets: 5:55 11:06 P.M.
MONDAY. Mass. Safety Council huddles at the Statler today and to^
morrow , too. ♦ * * Mr. Koussevitzky and the Symphony Orchestra give
a concert tonight at Symphony Hall. * * * The Traveller for this day in
1848 reported that "an unusually large number of devotees of the bowl
were led or carried to the watch-house" over the week-end. In one instance
"the Watch were called to a house at the South End by a loud outcry of
'murder' " and found it to be brought on by a man's effort to get his wife's
rum-bottle away from her. ♦ ♦ * Kit Carson and the Ute Indians were
here in 1868.

21 Sun rises: 5:48 High water: 11:24 A.M.

X sets: 5:56 11:42 P.M.

TUESDAY. Vernal Equinox. * * * Spring arrives at 7:29 A.M. * * *
Symphony Concert at Symphony Hall this afternoon. * ♦ ♦ Last chance
to see the Bruins play hockey at the Boston Garden. ♦ * ♦ The whale-
ship Boston, "only 7 months at sea," was back in port this day in 1833,
"chock full of oil and whalebone." ♦ ♦ * The old age pension bill was
reported favorably by a legislative committee on this day in 1930.

^f J Sun rises: 5:46 High water:

Cml^Jk sets: 5:57 12:05 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Weather: Uncertain, but we think 50. * * * A lovelorn
lady tried suicide in Boston Harbor on this day in 1833 but "her spinnaker
skirts and balloon jib train kept her afloat until rescued." * * ♦ Butter-
flies and geese were flying over the city in 1865. ♦ ♦ ♦ Point to remem-
ber: From the source to the mouth of the Charles River is a distance of
only 25 miles, whereas its course covers 69 miles. Gee!

Sun rises: 5:44 High water: 12:20 A.M.

sets: 5:58 12:43 P.M.

THURSDAY. Wrestling Matches at the Garden again, * * * In 1661
Chicataubet, Sachem of the Massachusetts, was dining with Governor
Winthrop. The Chief, God bless him, "behaved himself as soberly as an
Englishman." ♦ * * The Boston Gazette of this day in 1815 ran an ad-
vertisement urging the election of the Federalist ticket. "Sleeping Samson
of New England," it roared, "wake, before they cut oflf your hair." ♦ * *
During a religious revival, a 15-hour service was held on this day in 1858
at a Hanover Street Church.

Sun rises: 5:42 High water: 12:59 A.M.

sets: 5:59 1:27 P.M.

FRIDAY. Symphony Concert this afternoon. ♦ ♦ ♦ Tough Guy:
"Samuel Ruggles, going up the meeting hill," on this day in 1667, "was
struck by lightning, his two oxen and horses killed, a chest in the cart
with goods in it burnt in sundry places, himself coming oflf the cart, car-
ried twenty feet from it, yet no abiding hurt." ♦ * ♦ The lands of the
Public Garden were oflTered for sale on this day in 1823. * ♦ * The
State "Baby Volstead Act" was repealed on this day in 1933.

Sun rises: 5:41 High water: 1:42 A.M.

sets: 6:01 2:11 P.M.

SATURDAY. Symphony concert tonight, too, ♦ ♦ ♦ Sometime about
now H, S. Ede will lecture on ''The British School of Painting' at the
Fine Arts Museum, * * * The Boston Gazette on this day in 1723 oflfered
for sale a very desirable property, "a convenient dwelling House, two
Tenements with Tenants in them that pay the rent well when due." ♦ ♦ ♦
Physicians for the second draft were on this day in 1918 judging recruits
by their potential rather than their actual health. Army cantonments,
they figured, might make men of many previously rejected.

In 1889 promoters of the scheduled
championship fight between Jake Kil-
rain and John L. Sullivan (both Bos-
tonians) at New Orleans, advised the
worried press that "the aflfair will be
as peaceful and joyous as a picnic.
Nine out of ten of the expected attend-
ants will be armed. There will be 20
picnic masters armed with Winchesters
to keep the joy confined."

MARCH

When, as is the common rule,
Children call out "April Fool!"
I grin and cut a merry caper —
Who would not be a fool in Apr.?

M. E. H.

^^^^ Sunrises: 5:39 High water: 2:27 A.M.

imJ^KJ sets: 6:02 3:00 P.M.

SUNDAY. This is the sixth day of spring. We still can't believe it,

* * * There was a "great drouth" in these parts in 1639. * * * Dr.
Karl Muck, leader of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was arrested on
this day in 1918, charged with espionage, refusal to play "The Star
Spangled Banner" and the bad habit of asking for sauerkraut when he
really meant Liberty Cabbage.

^^ " X Sun rises: 5:37 High water: 3:19 A.M.

iml JL sets: 6:03 3:56 P.M.

MONDAY. Spring term, Boston Center for Adult Education begins.

* * * The New England Optometrists are seeing each other at the
Statler. * ♦ * On this day in 1858 sympathetic creditors of an East
Boston merchant called a moratorium when they saw crepe on his door.
But nobody was dead. The scoundrel had absconded. ♦ * ♦ Edwin
Booth was appearing in "Hamlet" on this day in 1865 at the Boston
Theatre. ♦ * ♦ The telephone line between Boston and New York opened
this day in 1884.

He is but a cad who hurls.
Empty peanut shells to squirrels.
H. E. W.

^^v2 Sunrises: 5:35 High water: 4:15 A.M.

CmisJ sets: 6:04 4:56 P.M.

TUESDAY. Mayflower Descendants tell each other about it at the So-
ciety's House at 9 Walnut Street, today. * * * It was ordered on this day
in 1642 "that all Inhabitants of this Towne shall remoove all their goates
from this necke by or before the next second day of the week, and never
more to keepe any of them upon this necke, under the penalty of 3s. 4d. a
goat for every goat seene abroad from this day forward." And that still
goes, see! * * ♦ Social Note: Representatives of the Queen of Madagas-
car were staying at the Tremont House on this day in 1883.

OQ Sunrises: 5:34 High water: 5:17 A.M.

UmAxJ sets: 6:05 6:01P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Weather: Springy. * * * It was forbidden on this day
in 1647 to dig sods on the Common. * * * In the early eighteenth cen-
tury, snow was frequently packed five or six feet deep on the streets in
winter. "Playful" boys would burrow "ovens" through this snow, causing
passing carriages to drop suddenly, thereby practically snapping the
necks of travelers. Some fun. * ♦ ♦

Sun rises:
sets:

5:32
6:06

High water:

6:22 A.M.
7:03 P.M.

THURSDAY. Weather: Warmer and colder, a real New England March
day. * ♦ * A law was passed today in 1721 whereby taverners forfeited
debts for drink and victuals exceeding ten shillings. • ♦ ♦ A butcher in
East Boston announced this day in 1912 that he made a specialty of
sausage "from little pigs who died happy."

Sun rises:
sets:

5:31
6:07

High water:

7:26 A.M.
8:03 P.M.

FRIDAY. Weather: Just like yesterday, only exaggerated. ♦ ♦ ♦ The
Skating Club of Boston will cut some fancy figures today and tomorrow
at Boston Garden. ♦ ♦ * The British government decided to close the
Port of Boston this day in 1774. * * * In 1852 the Tremont Temple and
the art collection it housed went up in smoke on this day. ♦ * * The
Traveller was making this editorial point in 1890, "Spain is coming
rapidly to. the front as a progressive country. Forty thousand workmen
are on a strike in Catalonia."

APRIL

Sun rises:

sets:

5:29
6:08

High water: 8:26 A.M.
5:58 P.M.

SATURDAY. All Fools' Day (yoo-hoo!) ♦ * * The Daily Advertiser
for this day in 1825 had all kinds of things to sell. If you couldn't use a
nice tomb in the Copp's Hill Burying Ground, how about "Cattys of Tea,"
"Quintals of Codfish" or "Zeroons of Cochineal"? * * * This day in
1854 marked the closing of the Exchange Coffee House, long a gathering
point for festive spirits.

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At one time during the period in
which the General Court met in the
Province House, skunks were so numer-
ous in the neighborhood that it was
found advisable to maintain a little
grave yard in the rear of the building
for the garments of those members who
were so unfortunate as to be exposed to
the attentions of the pretty little kitties.
Each little grave was marked by a stake
bearing the owner's name against the
day of resurrection. Unfortunately none
of the epitaphs have come down to us.

APRIL

"Ye rare month when ye blithe lark singeth" —
Yes, and ye nose commence to runneth.
Ye have shed ye coat like an idiot.
And ye lie in bed, and ye doctor cometh.

Sun rises: 5:29 High water: 9:24 A.M.

sets: 6:08 9:52 P.M.

SUNDAY. ?alm Sunday. • » * In 1830, if you had $4, a lot of time
and no end of patience, you could go on a 12-hour excursion to Keene,
N. H., by stage. Or, you could just stay home and join in the cynical re-
marks being made about the "Association of Ladies" that was going to
build Bunker Hill Monument. ♦ ♦ ♦ This day in 1934 marked the return,
after an absence of 16 years, of the Metropolitan Opera Company.

Sun rises: 5:25 High water: 10:20 A.M.

sets: 6:10 10:42 P.M.

MONDAY. 18th Annual Mass. Safety Conference opens a two-day meet-
ing at the Statler today. * * * In 1685 the Town was sober as news of
the death of Charles II on Feb. 6 was received. * ♦ ♦ This day in 1735
the Watch was ordered to cry the hour and the weather. This kept any
number of people from sleeping, including the Watch. ♦ ♦ ♦ Edward
Everett Hale born in Boston in 1822.

Sun rises: 5:24 High water: 11:09 A.M.

sets: 6:12 11:30 P.M.

TUESDAY. Passover begins today. * * * There was a special exhibit
of gas lights at the Boylston Museum, "interspersed with music by a select
band," this evening in 1816. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Federalist nominating caucus for
city officers was hard at it in 1822. ♦ ♦ ♦ This day in 1870 marked the
beginning of the Police Department's "Rogues' Gallery." Eight years later
the file contained 1400 likenesses.

Sun rises: 5:22 High water: 11:58 A.M.

sets: 6:13

WEDNESDAY. In 1831, the "Help Wanted" columns really had some-
thing in them. Consider the following: "Young Men Wanted: Must be
tactful and etiquettish to please the ladies. Must wear stiff dickey, white
gloves, fashionable cravat, be erect, in brief, a moderate swell." ♦ ♦ ♦
The brewery strike in 1902 was forcing Bostonians to drink New York
beer temporarily. The consensus of opinion was that it was pretty poor
stuff, however.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:20
6:14

High water:

12:17 A.M.
12:47 P.M.

THURSDAY. The American Ass*n of Anatomists, which is quite a body
(haw!) itself, meets today, tomorrow and Saturday at the Somerset Hotel
and the Harvard Medical School, ♦ ♦ ♦ Everybody took this day ofif in
1797 to see John Stewart hanged on the Common for robbery. ♦ ♦ ♦
Under the heading of Latest Telegraphic Dispatches on this day in 1870
the Post corrected an earlier erroneous story — "The Emperor of Russia
has hypochondriasis — not rupture as reported."

Sun rises: 5:18
sets: 6:15

High water:

1:03 A.M.
1:37 P.M.

FRIDAY. Good Friday, ♦ ♦ ♦ This day in 1630 three magistrates were
appointed for life, this beginning the tradition of life tenure for Mass.
Judges. ♦ ♦ * "Gamblers, smokers, loafers and dram-peddlars" ordered
off the Common this day in 1827. * * * In 1902 the General Court was
considering a proposal for the licensing of cats. * * * In 1929 it was 84
degrees in the shade and there wasn't much shade. Also, there wasn't
no Bock beer, neither.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:17
6:16

High water:

1:51 A.M.
2:24 P.M.

SATURDAY. First City Election on this day in 1822. But it didn't take.
* * * Boston's great Charlotte Cushman made her theatrical debut at
the Tremont Theatre this day in 1835. * * * In 1880 "Joe" Jefferson
was here in "Rip Van Winkle" and playing to S.R.O. ♦ ♦ ♦ Another
full house was on hand at Symphony Hall this day in 1927 when Idaho's
Borah and Columbia's Butler talked some about a thing called the
"Eighteenth Amendment."

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Ordered this year (1685) to prevent
excess and vain expense in the matter
of mourning that "no scarves, gloves or
rings, shall be given at any funeral in
this town nor shall any wine, rum or
other spiritous liquor ... be given at
or immediately before or after any fu-
neral." Further that whatever male per-
son "shall appear or walk in the proces-
sion . . . with any new mourning coat
or waistcoat, or with any other new
black apparel save and except a black
crepe bound around one arm shall for-
feit and pay the sum of 20 shillings."
Females, "of whatever degree," were al-
lowed a black hat or bonnet, gloves,
ribbons and fans, but no more under
penalty of the same fine.

APRIL

When you speak of the market
That's known as Faneuil,
Kindly pronounce it
To rhyme with Dan'l.

R. S.
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Sun rises: 5:15 High water: 2:39 A.M.

sets: 6:17 3:16 P.M.

SUNDAY. Easter — Biological Wonder: This is the only day of the year
on which rabbits can lay eggs. * ♦ * There was a sudden thaw this day
in 1852, with the snow, as usual, coming off the roofs in avalanches. One
young thing was buried up to the neck on Court Street. * ♦ ♦ A "Great
Ball" this night in 1877 at the Music Hall to raise funds for the preserva-
tion of the Old South Meeting House.

Sun rises: 5:14 High water: 3:31 A.M.

sets: 6:18 4:08 P.M.

MONDAY. The dignitaries of Plymouth and Boston won a moral vic-
tory on this day in 1671 when they argued King Philip into signing a
document stating that through "the naughtiness of his heart" he had
violated and broken his covenant with the English. He then proceeded
to be even naughtier. ♦ * ♦ This day in 1799 was the first of two weeks
of vacation for the young gentlemen at the college in Cambridge and not
a single one took a Bermuda Cruise.

Sun rises: 5:12 High water: 4:25 A.M.

sets: 6:19 5:05 P.M.

TUESDAY. Last day of Passover. * * * In 1852, revolving heels, de-
signed to equalize wear and tear, were the latest fashion wrinkle. * * *
The police got a new 6-pointed brass star to wear this day in 1853. * ♦ ♦
Journeymen painters were "vexed" at being required to work more than
nine hours on Saturday in 1881 and decided to strike for $2.50 a day.
They were even threatening to emigrate to Philadelphia or New York
"where they say that $3.00 may be had."

Sun rises: 5:10 High water: 5:22 A.M.

sets: 6:20 6:02 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. The ship Charity, after almost coming to grief when she
struck ground twice between Allerton's Point and Nantasket, arrived
safely with a badly needed cargo on this day in 1636. * * * In 1820,
Consul de Valnais was inviting all Frenchmen in the city to wear mourn-
ing for forty days for the Due de Berri, slain "probably by Bonapartists."
♦ ♦ ♦ Great Chelsea fire this day in 1908.

Sun rises: 5:09
sets: 6:21

High vrater:

6:17 A.M.
6:54 P.M.

THURSDAY. Jefferson's birthday, * * * Wrestling tonight at the
Garden. * * ♦ This day in 1635 the Town got around to worrying about
a school and voted to "entreat" Philemon Pormont to become school-
master. * * * In 1828 the clergy was reporting a great increase in at-
tendance at Sunday Schools. Nobody, not even the ministers, ever did
figure out why this sudden interest was shown.

Sun

sets:

5:07
6:23

High water;

7:14 A.M.
7:47 P.M.

FRIDAY. This day in 1642 "Eight or nine persons were cast away in
vessels and drowned. They were noted to be loose fellows, that lived by
trucking with the Indians." No shaggers? No Lambeth Walkers? ♦ * ♦
In 1700 Judge Sewall told his diary "Sabbath. I saw and heard the
Swallows proclaim the Spring." * ♦ ♦ First professional Sunday base-
ball game this day in 1929.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:06
6:24

High water: 8:04 A.M.
8:30 P.M.

SATURDAY. Trout Season opens and continues until St. Swithin*s
Day. ♦ * * Work by Members of the Boston Society of Watercolor
Artists on exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts until May 15th.

* * * The city was tense this day in 1861 as the Civil War began. ♦ * *
Mme. Helena Modjeska in "Romeo and Juliet" at the Globe in 1879.

* * * Back Bay Station burned this night in 1928. ♦ ♦ ♦ Regular air
passenger service to New York began in 1929.

John Josselyn, in "An Account of
Two Voyages to New England" de-
scribes the state of diversion in Boston
thusly: "In 1637 there were not many
houses in the Town of Boston, amongst
which were two houses of entertain-
ment called ordinaries into which
if a stranger went, he was presently
followed by one appointed to that of-
fice, who would thrust himself into his
company uninvited, and if he called for
more drink than the officer thought in
his judgement he could soberly bear
away, he would presently countermand
it, and appoint the proportion, beyond
which he could not get one drop."

APRIL

Include among our minor joys
Contemplation of the poise
Of Brahmin gals and Harvard boys.

M. E. H.

Sun rises: 5:04 High water: 8:52 A.M.

sets: 6:25 9:12 P.M.

SUNDAY. Low Sunday, ♦ ♦ ♦ The end of the world was here again
in 1806 according to many. Total eclipse of the sun. * * * First decisive
election for Mayor on this day in 1822. John Phillips was the winner.

* * * The whole city turned out to greet U. S. Grant on this day in 1875.

* * * Latest killing frost ever recorded occurred this day in 1882.
Duplicated in 1936.

Sun rises: 5:02 High water: 9:35 A.M.

sets: 6:26 9:52 P.M.

MONDAY. Will you believe us if we tell you that the Boston Symphony
plays tonight at Symphony Hall? * * * Ben Franklin died in 1790.
* * * Terrific storm this day in 1851. Minot's Light destroyed; its two
keepers drowned. * * * On this day in 1915 there was a near riot at
the Tremont Theatre over The Birth of a Nation. * * * Former Prime
Minister J. R. MacDonald was in town in 1927.

Sun rises: 5:01 High water: 10:17 A.M.

sets: 6:27 10:31 P.M.

TUESDAY. Symphony Concert this afternoon — Symphony Hall. * * *
In 1775 the British were coming. * * * On this day in 1860, Edward
O'Donnell was fined $5 "for obtaining a pick axe under false pretences."
* * * In 1880, those who weren't hypnotized by that new-fangled gadget
called a telephone, were being nearly asphyxiated by the recently in-
vented kerosene stove.

Sun rises: 4:59 High water: 10:56 A.M.

sets: 6:29 11:10 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Patriots' Day. * * * B.A.A. Marathon today. * * *
This day in 1775 the British were going. And the Revolution had really
begun. * * * Exactly three years later, Mr. Simeon Deane arrived in
Boston with dispatches for Congress, including "Treaties of Alliance be-
tween France and the United States, signed at Paris, the 6th of February."
* * * In 1812 another War with England began on this day.

Sun rises: 4:58 High water: 11:37 A.M.

sets: 6:30 11:50 P.M.

THURSDAY. The Boston News Letter reported that on this day in 1704
"the Reverend Mr. Pemberton Preach'd an Excellent Sermon on 1 Thes.
4.11. 'and do your own business.' " * ♦ ♦ Lots of stage lines and taverns
for sale at this time in 1828. The owners were finally convinced that the
railroad was here to stay. * ♦ ♦ This day in 1853 the Watch was abol-
ished in favor of a brand new Police Department. ♦ ♦ ♦ Only $2 to
New York on the Joy Line in 1902.

Gals who fill up on Chop Suey
Fill me with a great ennui.

Sun rises: 4:56 High water:

sets: 6:31 12:20 P.M.

FRIDAY. All business suspended in 1841 as great funeral procession
for President Harrison passed through the city. ♦ * ♦ This day in 1853
the great clipper Staffordshire boiled in to port. Only 81 days out of
Calcutta. * * * In 1880 Bob IngersoU was in town and religion was be-
ing demolished — again. ♦ ♦ ♦ Cornerstone of Ford Hall laid this day
in 1905.

Sun rises: 4:54 High water: 12:32 A.M.

sets: 6:32 1:04 P.M.

SATURDAY. James II proclaimed King in Boston this day in 1685.
* * * Decently interred at Marblehead on this day in 1722, the body
of Mrs. Jane Norden, "The Agreeable Comfort of the Hon. Nathaniel
Norden, Esq." according to the Boston Gazette. * * ♦ The Boston-Salem
Turnpike opened in 1803. ♦ ♦ * Spring Fashion Note: In 1880 the
Traveller announced that Miladies' new hats looked "like crushed han-
som cabs."

It'll probably be a body blow to
"swing" addicts and an unpleasant jolt
to baseball writers, as well, but it's our
bounden duty to tell you that away back
in 1787, John Quincy Adams confided
to his diary the following: "I did not
admire Mrs. Parker; she has a hard
masculine countenance, and black eyes
which express as much softness as those
of a tiger. But she is a very good
woman; only has rather too much
temper, or as it is called in New Eng-
land, too much stuff"

APRIL

May Day
Hang no garlands on my door,
No posies on my knocker.
But let me away at the break of day
To cheer each soap-box talker.
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ii| I Sun rises: 4:43 High water: 8:10 A.M.

V^V^ sets: 6:40 8:40 P.M.

SUNDAY. For a wonder, the Travellers eagle-eyed editor had a kind
word to say for women's styles this day in 1830. The new white and green
spring bonnets were "delightful," he thought. * * * In 1853 it was de-
cided that the Charles River Bridge was to be "free henceforth forever."
* * * A day of fasting and prayer for the preservation of the Union in
1865. * * * This day marked the end of the North Ferry in 1933.

MAY

ISun rises: 4:42 High water: 9:08 A.M.

sets: 6:41 9:32 P.M.

MONDAY. This is May Day, let us tell you, and there will he a grea^
ringing of the welkin over the Common today. * * * Ringling Bros,
Circus comes to the Garden today for a week's stay. * * * First City
Government inaugurated at Faneuil Hall this day in 1822. ♦ ♦ ♦ First
one-cent Postal cards appeared this day in 1873. * * * In 1879 the
Globe had it that Henry M. Stanley was in Zanzibar organizing an ex-
ploring expedition. Meanwhile, here at home there was an opportunity
for "Agents of gentlemanly address to canvass for large family Bibles."

Sun rises: 4:41 High water: 10:00 A.M.

sets: 6:42 10:20 P.M.

TUESDAY. The Hon. George Stalwart Boutwell was offering "a thou-
sand acres of land in Groton to negro exodus people" this day in 1879,
while the Globe was indignant that "The bankers, not content with gob-
bling hundreds of millions in syndicates, are trying to prevent the people
from taking up the ten dollar certificates of the four per cent loan by all
sorts of sharp devices." ♦ ♦ * Uncle Tom's Cabin, with real blood-
hounds, at the Howard in 1881.

Sun rises: 4:39 High water: 10:52 A.M.

sets: 6:43 11:08 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Annual Meeting League of Nations Ass'n. ♦ * *
"Pops" start tonight at Symphony Hall. * * * The Knights of Pythias
convene at the Statler today and tomorrow. * * ♦ If they had got around
to it 261 years earlier they would probably be convening at the "Widowe
Milton's" who was this day in 1678 "approved of to entertaine inmaites or
Sojorners."

Sun rises:
sets:

4:38
6:45

High water:

11:40 A.M.
11:52 P.M.

THURSDAY. Weather: Gentle to westerly. * * * In 1827, card play-
ing was reported to be on its way out. And nobody cared. "It's a pastime,"
the press declared, "for the old, dull, stupid and disagreeable, anyway."
* * * The price of a shave went up to ten cents on this day in 1853,
which pleased nobody but the barbers.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:36
6:46

High water:

12:26 P.M.

H|tIDAY. Point to remember : Puritan Boston would have nothing to do
^nth wedding rings. They were considered "Diabollicall Circles for the
Divell to daunce in." * * * In 1775 the Provincial Congress was re-
nouncing Gage as Governor, saying "His jurisdiction is now confined to
the walls of the Capital only." Which could hardly have been news to
Gage. * * * In 1851 crowds were visiting the handsome clipper Witch
of the Wave at Lewis Wharf.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:35
6:47

High water:

12:37 A.M.
1:13 P.M.

SATURDAY. Mass. League of Women Voters Convention at Hotel
Sheraton about this time, * * * Major Josiah Quincy was fined for
speeding on this day in 1826. ♦ ♦ ♦ Everybody was off to the races at
Beacon Park this day in 1876. $14,000 in purses. * * * The Red Sox
surprised everybody, including themselves, by making 11 hits in one
inning this day in 1934.

The sad case of Mr. Thomas Morton,
apprehended at Mary-Mount by the
lord brethren of Boston. When the
"devillish sentence against him was
passed at Boston, the harmless salvages
(his neighbours) came the while,
greived, poore silly lambes, to see what
they went about (when the authorities
put him in the bilboes) ; and did re-
proove these eliphants of witt for their
inhumane deede; the Lord above did
open their mouthes like Balam's Asse
and make them speake in his behalfe,
sentences of unexpected divinity, be-
sides Morrallity; and tould them that
God would not love them; that burned
this good man's bowse; and plainly
sayd that they that were newcome would
find the want of such howses in the win-
ter." Which they did.

APRIL

May Day
Hang no garlands on my door,
No posies on my knocker,
But let me away at the break of day
To cheer each soap-box talker.

ii| J Sun rises: 4:43 High water: 8:10 A.M.

V^Vy sets: 6:40 8:40 P.M.

SUNDAY. For a wonder, the Traveller's eagle-eyed editor had a kind
word to say for women's styles this day in 1830. The new white and green
spring bonnets were "delightful," he thought. * * * In 1853 it was de-
cided that the Charles River Bridge was to be "free henceforth forever."
* * * A day of fasting and prayer for the preservation of the Union in
1865. * * * This day marked the end of the North Ferry in 1933.

MAY

Sun rises: 4:42 High water: 9:08 A.M.

sets: 6:41 9:32 P.M.

MONDAY. This is May Day, let us tell you, and there will he a grea^
ringing of the welkin over the Common today, ♦ ♦ * Ringling Bros,
Circus comes to the Garden today for a week's stay. ♦ * ♦ First City
Government inaugurated at Faneuil Hall this day in 1822. ♦ * ♦ First
one-cent Postal cards appeared this day in 1873. * * * In 1879 the
Globe had it that Henry M. Stanley was in Zanzibar organizing an ex-
ploring expedition. Meanwhile, here at home there was an opportunity
for "Agents of gentlemanly address to canvass for large family Bibles."

Sun rises: 4:41 High water: 10:00 A.M.

sets: 6:42 10:20 P.M.

TUESDAY. The Hon. George Stalwart Boutwell was offering "a thou-
sand acres of land in Groton to negro exodus people" this day in 1879,
while the Globe was indignant that "The bankers, not content with gob-
bling hundreds of millions in syndicates, are trying to prevent the people
from taking up the ten dollar certificates of the four per cent loan by all
sorts of sharp devices." ♦ * * Uncle Tom's Cabin, with real blood-
hounds, at the Howard in 1881.

Sun rises: 4:39 High water: 10:52 A.M.

sets: 6:43 11:08 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Annual Meeting League of Nations Ass'n. * * *
"Pops" start tonight at Symphony Hall. * * * The Knights of Pythias
convene at the Statler today and tomorrow. * * ♦ If they had got around
to it 261 years earlier they would probably be convening at the "Widowe
Milton's" who was this day in 1678 "approved of to entertaine inmaites or
Sojorners."

Sun rises:

4:38
6:45

High water:

11:40 A.M.
11:52 P.M.

THURSDAY. Weather: Gentle to westerly, * * * In 1827, card play-
ing was reported to be on its way out. And nobody cared. "It's a pastime,"
the press declared, "for the old, dull, stupid and disagreeable, anyway."
* * * The price of a shave went up to ten cents on this day in 1853,
which pleased nobody but the barbers.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:36
6:46

High water:

12:26 P.M.

H^IDAY. Point to remember : Puritan Boston would have nothing to do
i^mh wedding rings. They were considered "Diabollicall Circles for the
Divell to daunce in." * * * In 1775 the Provincial Congress was re-
nouncing Gage as Governor, saying "His jurisdiction is now confined to
the walls of the Capital only." Which could hardly have been news to
Gage. * * * In 1851 crowds were visiting the handsome clipper Witch
of the Wave at Lewis Wharf.

Sun rises:

sets:

4:35
6:47

High water:

12:37 A.M.
1:13 P.M.

SATURDAY. Mass, League of Women Voters Convention at Hotel
Sheraton about this time. ♦ * ♦ Major Josiah Quincy was fined for
speeding on this day in 1826. ♦ ♦ ♦ Everybody was off to the races at
Beacon Park this day in 1876. $14,000 in purses. * * * The Red Sox
surprised everybody, including themselves, by making 11 hits in one
inning this day in 1934.

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The sad case of Mr. Thomas Morton,
apprehended at Mary-Mount by the
lord brethren of Boston. When the
"devillish sentence against him was
passed at Boston, the harmless salvages
(his neighbours) came the while,
greived, poore silly lambes, to see what
they went about (when the authorities
put him in the bilboes) ; and did re-
proove these eliphants of witt for their
inhumane deede; the Lord above did
open their mouthes like Balam's Asse
and make them speake in his behalfe,
sentences of unexpected divinity, be-
sides Morrallity; and tould them that
God would not love them; that burned
this good man's howse; and plainly
sayd that they that were newcome would
find the want of such howses in the win-
ter." Which they did.

MAY

In May 1672, the General Court decided
"Whereas, there is no express punishment. . .
affixed to the evill practise ... of exhorbi-
tancy of the tongue in ray ling and scholding,
it is therefore ordered, that all such persons
convicted . . . for rayling or scholding, shall
be gagged or sett in a ducking stoole and dipt
over head and ears three times, in some con-
venient place of fresh or salt water."

Sun rises: 4:34 High water: 1:22 A.M.

sets: 6:48 1:58 P.M.

SUNDAY. Community Service's Annual Father and Son Banquet, at the
Copley Plaza. * * * The U.S.S. Constitution arrived this day in 1934
after a cruise of 23,000 miles.

Sun rises: 4:33 High water: 2:09 A.M.

sets: 6:49 2:45 P.M.

MONDAY. The worm turned with a vengeance this day in 1826 when
a member of the Watch took on three Harvard hecklers, beat them up,
tied them up, and trundled them off to the cooler. * ♦ * This day in
1851 the Adams House was sold for $1700 cash and a mortgage of
$118,699.71. Which must have taken some high class promoting. * ♦ ♦
James Bryant Conant elected President of Harvard University this day in
1933.

9 Sun rises: 4:31 High water: 2:56 A.M.

sets: 6:50 3:33 P.M.

TUESDAY. Convention of N.E. Order of Protection barricades itself in
at the Statler today. * * * Fine example of early Boston hospitality this
day in 1636 when it ordered that if any inhabitants entertain strangers
over 14 days without leave "from those .... appointed to order the
Towne's businesses," they are liable to be "dealt with." * * * In 1914,
this was the first "Mother's Day." * ♦ * Boston's Richard E. Byrd flew
over the North Pole this day in 1926.

Sun rises: 4:30 High water: 3:46 A.M.

sets: 6:51 4:24 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. This day in 1649 one Spring fashion was nipped in the
bud when Gov. Endicott, Mr. Dudley, Mr. Bellingham and others signed
the following : "For as much as the wearing of long hair, after the manner
of Russians and barbarous Indians has begun to invade New England,
contrary to the rule of God's word which says it is a shame for a man to
wear long hair, (we) do declare and manifest our dislike and detestation
against it."

Sun rises: 4:29
sets: 6:52

High water:

4:39 A.M.
5:17 P.M.

THURSDAY. Wrestling Matches tonight at the Garden, * * * The
Boston press was being poisoned by insidious foreign propaganda as early
as 1832. In that year local papers were carrying advertisements for some
sort of new-fangled institution called "Yale," located somewhere in the
hinterlands of Connecticut. "Tuition $76 a year. Full board 2 to 4 dollars
per week."

Sun rises:
sets:

4:28
6:53

High water:

5:33 A.M.
6:08 P.M.

FRIDAY. Figures released this day in 1831 showed that Charlestown
was the healthiest community in the nation. * * * In 1906 the Navy
Yard was about to be closed — again. ♦ * ♦ French War Mission, headed
by Joffre, here this day in 1917. * * * Died this day in 1925, poetess
Amy Lowell. * * * Point to remember : Since the coming of the Puritans,
Beacon Hill's height has been cut down from its original 180 feet to a
mere 105 feet today.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:27
6:54

High water:

6:28 A.M.
7:00 P.M.

SATURDAY. In 1640 it was decided that "James Luxford, for his
forgery, lying and other foul offences was censured to be bound to the
whipping poast till the lecture from the first bell, and after the lecture
to have his eares cut off; and so he has liberty to depart out of our juris-
diction." We certainly hope Mr. Luxford could take a hint. * * * Dur-
ing the month of May 1921, Boston was visited by the two most famous
scientists of the day, Madame Curie and Professor Einstein.

King's Chapel was the first building
in Boston to be erected of Quincy
Granite, the blocks being cut from the
surface of the ground. In 1747 when
the building was only partially com-
pleted, the committee in charge of the
work reported that it was doubtful
whether there was "sufficient granite in
the town of Quincy to complete the
I structure." It is our contention that for
; sheer bad guessing on a large scale,
this report is almost the equal of Mr.
Corrigan's 1938 flight to Dublin, Cali-
fornia.

MAY

Dear Miss Mitchell, please deposit
Your ten-pound sequel in the closet.
We'll have no more of flouncing vixens
South of the Masons and the Dixons.

Sun rises: 4:25 High water: 7:21 A.M.

sets: 6:56 7:46 P.M.

SUNDAY. Mother's Day. * * * In 1692 Sir William Phips arrived
with the Charter of William and Mary, in accordance with which Massa-
chusetts and Plymouth were merged in Their Majesties' Province of
Massachusetts Bay. * * * This day in 1937, after a five-day round tripj
to England, Dick Merrill and J. S. Lambie landed at Squantum.

Sun rises: 4:24 High water: 8:10 A.M.

sets: 6:57 8:30 P.M.

MONDAY. Captain Bartholomew Gosnold and his party took a "great
store of cod" this day in 1602 off a mighty headland "which was promptly
christened Cape Cod," supposedly the first place in Massachusetts to be
given an English name. * ♦ * Wonderful opportunity for a summer
cruise today in 1704 when the News Letter printed: "Captain Peter
Laurence is going a Privateering from Rhode Island in a good Sloop,
about 60 tuns, six Guns and 90 men for Canada and any Gentlemen or
Sailors that are disposed to go shall be kindly entertained."

Sun rises: 4:23 High water: 8:56 A.M.

sets: 6:58 9:16 P.M.

TUESDAY. This day in 1827 the Traveller pointed out that there were
nearly 1000 saloons in Boston, whereas 500 would really be enough.
* * * Even the Spring weather couldn't cheer up Elevated employees
this day in 1932. Their pay was cut 6% cents an hour. ♦ ♦ * Point to
remember: In and around Boston there are more than 100,000 persons
of Canadian birth. It has been estimated that one out of every five persons
resident in the State is of Canadian birth or heritage.

Sun rises: 4:22 High water: 9:42 A.M.

sets: 6:59 9:57 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. // yoiu like tulips, you should see what they have nt'
Horticultural Hall today and tomorrow, ♦ ♦ ♦ We won't swear to it,
but on this night in 1719 the Aurora Borealis was supposedly first seen
from Boston. To many it was an unmistakable sign of the approach of
Doomsday. * * ♦ This day in 1774 Gen. Gage, last of the Royal Gov-
ernors, arrived. * ♦ * New record of 35 hours for mail service between
Boston and New York set this day in 1832.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:21
7:00

High water:

10:28 A.M.
10:40 P.M.

THURSDAY. Ascension Thursday. * * * There was a lot of talk go-
ing on about building a new City Hall on the new Public Garden at this
time in 1857. * * * In 1876 the Hon. Francis W. Bird was declaring
that the Nation's only hope was "with a purified regenerated Democracy,
cleansed by 16 years of adversity." * * * In 1927 the Ritz Carlton
opened on this day. * * * The temperature was 91 degrees in 1936.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:20
7:01

High water:

11:12 A.M.
11:24 P.M.

FRIDAY. This day in 1722, the Selectmen labored and brought forth
as fine an example of anti-climax as you'd ever care to hear. Like this:
"If any ill disposed Persons continue their false and malicious Reports
of the Small Pox spreading or increasing in Boston, it is hoped no
considerate persons will give any credit thereto." * ♦ * New England's
"Dark Day" m 1780.

Sun rises:

4:19
7:02

High water: 11:58 A.M.

SATURDAY. Four days National Florence Crittenton Conference begins
today at the Touraine, * * * Reserve Officers Ass'n of U, S., Dept, of
Mass., meet at the Kenmore. ♦ * * This day in 1690 died John Eliot,
in his 86th year. ♦ * * A strange fact, difficult to explain, but universally
admitted: Bostonians are almost invariably men and women of quick and
accurate judgment, rare and striking beauty, quiet and constant courage
and rich and amiable wit. ♦ ♦ * A great crowd at the Harbor this day
in 1907 to watch U. S. Submarine set new diving record of 200 feet.

You may not care much for statistics,
but here are a few that, sooner or later,
may concern you vitally. The City of
Boston owns twenty cemeteries, totalling
212 acres. They are all under the care
of the Park Department although some
are no longer available to the public
for interments. Of the twenty. Mount
Hope is the largest and the most popu-
lar (if a cemetery can be popular). In
1937 there were a total of 2,075 burials
in these cemeteries, which was exactly
77 more than in 1936. In 1937, 71.08%
of these were in Mount Hope as against
74.57% in 1936.

MAY

John Josselyn, 17th century tree surgeon,
speaking on New England orchards: "Their
fruit trees are subject to disease, the meazels
and lowsiness, when the wood peckers job
holes in their bark; the way to cure them
... is to bore a hole into the main root . , .
and pour in a quantity of Brandie or Rhum
and flien stop it up with a pin made from the
same Tree."

Sun rises: 4;18 High water: 12:09 A.M.

sets: 7:03 12:45 P.M.

SUNDAY. In 1704 Gov. Dudley issued a proclamation on this da)
asking for the apprehension of a Commander Quelch and company,
"Violently suspected of Felony and Piracy . . . and acting divers Villain^
ous Murders." * * * In 1850, Mr. Ossian Dodge paid $625 in cash foi
the privilege of selecting his own seat at Tremont Temple when Jenny
Lind sang there.

Sun rises: 4:17 High water: 12:57 A.M.

sets: 7:04 1:36 P.M.

MONDAY. Samuel Sewall entertained in the most approved Bay Colony
manner this day in 1685. "had a private fast: the Magistrates . . . witl
their wives were here. Mr. Eliot prayed, Mr. Willard preached, 'I am
afraid of Thy Judgements'. . . . Mr. Allen prayed: cessation half an
hour, Mr. Mather preached. . . . Mr. Moody prayed about an hour
and a half; sung the 79th Psalm, from 8th to the End; distributed some
Biskets and Beer, Cider, Wine."

Sun rises: 4:17 High water: 1:48 A.M.

sets: 7:05 2:29 P.M.

TUESDAY. Supporting the genteel Boston tradition, the Watch was on
this day in 1821 requested "Not to cry the time of night in a vociferous
voice." * * * In 1831 wealthy Bostonians were building many summer
homes at Charlestown Highlands. * * * In 1857 the handsome new West
Street Gate to the Common was being "universally admired." Eggs were
17^ a dozen and butter 25^ a pound.

Sun rises: 4:16 High water: 2:41 A.M.

sets: 7:05 3:26 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. SKvuoth (Jewish) * » * In 1854 the fugitive slaves
Anthony Burns was arrested on this day, thus precipitating great indig-
nation and, two days later, some fine rioting. * ♦ ♦ City Hospital dedi-
cated this day in 1864. ♦ ♦ * This day in 1844, Samuel Morse of
Charlestown sent the first telegraphic message "What hath God wrought."*

Sun rises:

sets:

4:16
7:06

High water:

3:43 A.M.
4:24 P.M.

THURSDAY. Wrestling at the Garden tonight. * * * In 1775 the Gen-
erals Howe, Burgoyne and Clinton arrived to carry on the war. * * *
This day in 1699 Richard, Earl of Bellomont, arrived to take up his duties
as Royal Governor. He immediately set out to please everybody, even go-
ing as far as to attend the Weekly Lecture. It worked, too. In a short
while His Lordship's salary was substantially raised by the General
Court. * * * Ralph Waldo Emerson born in 1803.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:15
7:07

High water:

4:44 A.M.
5:24 P.M.

FRIDAY. In 1675 William Blackstone, first white man to settle in Shaw-
mut, now Boston, died. ♦ * * The Anthony Burns business really got up
steam this day in 1854, with a great protest meeting at Faneuil Hall, fol-
lowed by a riot in which a U. S. Deputy was killed. "The entire police
force, twenty-two companies of Massachusetts soldiers, a platoon of U. S.
Marines . . . and the Marshal's sworn posse, were deemed necessary to
guard . . . this helpless colored man from the Court House to Long
Wharf." Thomas Wentworth Higginson and other prominent Bostonians
were leading the mob which tried to rescue Burns.

Sun rises: 4:14
sets: 7:08

High Water:

5:48 A.M.
6:26 P.M.

SATURDAY. Work by students of the School of Museum of Fine Arts
on exhibition until June 15th at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. ♦ ♦ ♦
The General Court, after serious consideration, on this day in 1685, con-
cluded, "that we being under the solemn frowns of the Divine Providence
. . . therefore appoint the 16th day of July next to be set apart as a Day
of Publick Humiliation . . . exhorting all who are the Lord's Remember-
ancers to give Him no Rest, till, Isai 62, 7, He establish and make Jerusa-
lem a Praise in the Earth."

At the Town Meeting held on May 31,
1819 the members of the Watch and
those friendly to them managed to out-
sit almost everyone else. When the
coast was clear, this unholy "Rump"
then passed a motion to raise the wages
of the Watch from fifty to seventy-five
cents per night. But though it was skill-
fully and legally engineered, the tri-
umph turned to dust when the very next
meeting rescinded the vote.

MAY

FRANKLIN PARK
Gather ye rosebuds if ye dare
And take ye consequences !
Ye Park Department loves to nab
Bacchantes who climb fences.

Sun rises: 4:14 High water: 6:53 A.M.

sets: 7:09 7:24 P.M.

SUNDAY. Pentecost (Whitsunday) * * * You could have left Boston
at 3 A.M. and arrived in Hartford at 7 P.M. on this day in 1832. If you
had $5 for coach fare, that is. * * * This day in 1862 the Suffolk Rail-
road Company asked the City for permission "to place rail tracks in all
the streets of Boston not occupied by other companies, with the right to
run over all the tracks already laid in the public avenue." Which pretty
well covered the situation.

Sun rises: 4:13 High water: 7:54 A.M.

sets: 7:09 8:20 P.M.

MONDAY. Point to remember: According to a law enacted in 1639, no
ladies' garments shall be made with short sleeves "whereby the nakedness
of the arm may be discovered in the wearing thereby." * * * The New
England Colonies formed a union of their own on this day in 1643.

Sun rises: 4:13 High water: 8:52 A.M.

sets: 7:10 9:12 P.M.

TUESDAY. Memorial Day. * * * During the month of May in 1633
there "was a great sort of flies for bigness to wasps or bumble bees, which
come out of holes in the ground, eat the green things and make such a
constant yelling as all the woods ring with them and deafen the hearers."
* * * In 1826 a Newburyport ship owner was making himself very un-
popular by telling Boston owners not to be so sanctimonious about other
people's slave and rum ships while operating a fleet of their own.

Sun rises: 4:12 High water: 9:45 A.M.

sets: 7:11 10:01 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Many Bostonians at Pittsfield for the first "Agricultural
Fair" in 1807. * * * Snow on this day in 1832. * * » In 1907 there
was automobile racing at the Readville track on this day. Times : 50 miles
in 1:03:24, 100 miles in 2:10:30.

JUNE

Sun rises;
sets:

4:11
7:12

High water:

10:34 A.M.
10:46 P.M.

THURSDAY. Corpus Chrisd. * * * Earthquake this day in 1638.
* * * Crowd on Common greatly disappointed in 1660 when Mary Dyer
was not hanged, just banished. * * * On this day in 1823 Bannister
Opdike placed two porridge bowls on his front stoop and observed them
for four and a half hours. "There were seven in one," said Bannister,
"and none in the other." His conclusion: Molasses catches more flies than
vinegar.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:11
7:13

High water:

11:21 A.M.
11:31 P.M.

FRIDAY. Notwithstanding its distaste for "Mr. Madison's War," the
General Court on this day in 1814 voted a million dollars to defend the
Coast against the British. ♦ ♦ ♦ Died this day in 1927, Lizzie Borden,
still sticking to the weakest story ever told.

Sun rises:
sets':

4:10
7:13

High water:

12:05 P.M.

SATURDAY. On this day in 1928 Amelia Earhart, a worker at Denison
House, flew to Newfoundland to prepare for a trans- Atlantic flight. ♦ ♦ ♦
In 1935, word came that Babe Ruth was coming to the Boston Braves, and
all the kids were happy. * * ♦ Point to remember : For a period of 125
years, that is from 1630 to 1755, Boston was not only, as it is today, the
most important town in America, but the most populous, as well. In 1760
Philadelphia moved into first place in population with 18,756, Boston
was second with 15,631 and New York third with about 14,000.

In the summer of 1753, there being no
Beano or trucking contests available to
burn up the excess energy of the town,
said excess energy was diverted into a
short-lived spinning craze. The Evening
Post reported "Wednesday jast 300
spinners — daughters of the best families
in town — assembled in 3 rows to do
their spinning in public on the Com-
mon. Weavers were there also with their
looms."

JUNE

This month of bugs and wedding causes
Jewelers to rub their hands — it bodes
A thousand sweet girl graduates
And badly-written class day odes.

Sun rises: 4:10 High water: 12:13 A.M.

sets: 7:14 12:48 P.M.

SUNDAY. Trinity Sunday. * * * Born in 1774 Jeremy Belknap,
founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society. * ♦ ♦ The monotony of
a dull summer was shattered this day in 1854 when Mrs. Adams burst
upon the fashion scene with "the most wonderful wasp-waist corset ever
shown in the city." * * * Saloon keepers were cheered this day in 1875
when they learned that licenses could be had at from $150 to $200.

Sun rises: 4:09 High water: 12:55 A.M.

sets: 7:15 1:31 P.M.

MONDAY. 302nd Drum Head Election of Ancient and Honorable Artil-
lery Company held on the Common. * * * On this day in 1854 Theodore
Parker took the South apart and threw away the pieces in great anti-
slavery sermon at the Music Hall. * * ♦ Many a Bostonian felt that
there was some justice in the world this day in 1875, when the handsome
awards in settlement of their Alabama claims were announced.

Sun rises: 4:09 High water: 1:39 A.M.

sets: 7:16 2:15 P.M.

TUESDAY. On this day in 1636 Isaacke Cullymore, carpenter, was fined
ten pounds for selling his house to a stranger, ♦ ♦ ♦ Haymaking began
on the Common in 1852, with a fine crop reported. * * * On this day in
1904 the Alumni of M.I.T. organized to fight "Tooth and Nail" the pro-
posed merger with Harvard. * * * In 1930 the city opened the Celebra-
tion of its Tercentenary.

g Sun rises: 4:09 High water: 2:23 A.M.

JL sets: 7:17 2:58 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Weather: Rare. * * * This is a good month not to go
near the City Clerk's ofl&ce. There are eleven others. * * ♦ We have it on
good authority that on this day in 1879 the police were "radiant" in their
new waterproof straw hats. * * * In 1862 the Traveller warned edi-
torially, "Let a youth who stands at the bar with a glass of liquor in his
hands, consider which he had better throw away — the liquor or himself."

Sun rises: 4:08 High water: 3:09 A.M.

sets: 7:17 3:45 P.M.

THURSDAY. About this time in 1636 the authorities decided that sailors
were not to remain on shore after sunset "Except upon necessary busi-
ness." And so? * * * Daring bathing garments were observed this day
in 1827 on a Beacon Hill bathing beauty at Nahant.

Sun rises: 4:08 High water: 3:57 A.M.

sets: 7:18 4:33 P.M.

FRIDAY. In 1825, the report of the City Council on financial situation
for the year ending on May 30 showed: receipts $607,804; expenses $556,-
134.60; balance $51,665.40. Hot damn! ♦ ♦ ♦ A "Retreat for the In-
sane" was established in West Roxbury in 1888.

Sun rises: 4:08 High water: 4:50 A.M.

sets: 7:19 5:22 P.M.

SATURDAY. Commencement at Simmons. * * * In 1800, such fine
bloodtingling words as Patna Bastas, Tandah Mamoodys, Alibad Cossas,
Nauckhorys, Jannahs, etc., turned out to be merely a few of the many
cotton fabrics in which Boston damsels decked themselves. ♦ ♦ ♦ This
day in 1862 it was triumphantly announced that "the latest improvement
' in pharmacy is a pill, got up on the principles of a shell. When swallowed
it explodes. Instead of requiring four or five hours to operate, it produces
instantaneous results."

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On May 2, 1879 the Boston Globe re-
ported on a "new and alarming theory"
propounded by "a scientific gentleman"
who was convinced that the oil wells in
Pennsylvania were tapping the reser-
voirs around the bearings of the Earth's
axis and that the planet would stop re-
volving if the supply were exhausted.
He called for immediate action on the
part of the Government to "stop fur-
ther pumping and boring of this gud-
geon grease of the Universe."

JUNE

A visitor to Boston in the year 1698, a Mr.
Ned Ward, reported "Their buildings are like
their women, neat and handsome, and their
streets, like the hearts of their men, are paved
with pebbles." This same wise guy said the
town had four churches and four clergymen,
"one a scholar, one a gentleman, one a dunce
and one a clown."

Sun rises: 4:08 High water: 5:41 A.M.

sets: 7:19 6:12 P.M.

SUNDAY. By this time in 1829 it was becoming obvious that the whale
oil trade was languishing due to the extension of service of gas com-
panies. * * * In 1850 Margaret Starr, 92, arrested for drunkenness,
made a game effort to exterminate the police. * * * On this same day of
that year William G. Easton, pioneer ghost-writer, confessed his willing-
ness to prepare "anything, from poetry, scientific essays, speeches and
advertising matter of any sort."

I ^ Sun rises: 4:08 High water: 6:36 A.M.

A ^J sets: 7:20 7:00 P.M.

MONDAY. George Woodward, a "sope boylar" by trade, was fined this
day in 1638 for "unlawful entry upon some of the Towne's grounds and
for digging holes and annoying the High Way with fish." Whatever it was
he did, it's still against the law. * * * On this day in 1775 General Gage
issued a proclamation, declaring the Massachusetts Bay Colony to be in
a state of rebellion. He was right, too. * ♦ * A magnificent temperance
parade took an hour to pass this day in 1850.

I ^ Sun rises: 4:07 High water: 7:29 A.M.

■*• V^ sets: 7:20 7:49 P.M.

TUESDAY. Boston ship-owners in 1827 challenged the British to a
clipper-ship race anytime, anywhere, for fun or money. Oysters were 6^^
cents a bushel. ♦ ♦ * Many fine matrimonial opportunities were offered
in the press on this day in 1875. * ♦ * This day in 1900 fifteen un-
named and unknown busts of supposedly illustrious persons were dis-
covered in the Athenaeum.

I ^tL Sun rises: 4:07 High water: 8:20 A.M.

^ * sets: 7:21 8:38 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Flag Day. * * * Bostonians were wide awake to the
alien menace as early as 1642. On this day of that year "In ye Genrall
Corte itt was . . . ordered on mocon of ye member from Rocksberry yt
Goodman Armittage bee called to giue account of ye young Spaniard att
his hows and likewise take heed that his daughter Mary com nott soe
much in his companie." * * * In 1926 the School Committee ruled that
men and women should not have equal pay for equal work.

Sun rises: 4:07
sets: 7:21

High water:

9:11 A.M.
9:26 P.M.

THURSDAY. First witch hanging in Massachusetts this day in 1648, with
Margaret Jones as the party of the first part. * * * On this day in 1827
Tory vandals, unregenerate after 50 years, desecrated the Liberty Pole, on
the site of the Liberty Tree, at Washington and Essex Streets. * ♦ *
The First Massachusetts, the first three-year regiment to reach Washington,
left Boston on this day in 1861.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:07
7:21

High water:

10:00 A.M.
10:13 P.M.

FRIDAY. On this day in 1775 the Massachusetts Council of War decided
to fortify Bunker Hill. By night 1,200 men were busy, only they were busy
fortifying Breed's Hill. * * ♦ The garment, the "sweater," gets its name
from Sir Ambrose de Sweater, last of his line, who designed it. He spent
twenty years at the work. It was knitted in secret by Magyars brought to
his home in Ramsey, Hants. When it was finished he wouldn't wear it.
Neither would his wife.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:07
7:22

High water:

10:48 A.M.
11:02 P.M.

SATURDAY. Bunker Hill Day. There'll be a hot time in Charlestown
tonight. ♦ ♦ ♦ On this day in 1819 Freeman Backhouse was sent to
prison for three years for picking the pocket of Flavel Case, a member of
the Watch. ♦ ♦ ♦ Boston staged a mammoth Peace Jubilee on this day in
1872. 20,000 voices, 1,000 instruments and Johann Strauss leading the
orchestra in waltzes of his own composition.

The early colonists in New England
soon discovered that more potential
wealth lay in the sea than in the land,
and, like good business men, were quick
in finding new uses for their chief crop
—the Sacred Cod. By 1672, when John
Josselyn's New England Rareties was
printed, we find that credulous exag-
gerator expounding, "Their livers and
sounds eaten, is a good medicine for to
restore them that have melted their
grease." The well-intended Mr. Josselyn
also points out another remarkable vir-
tue of the cod when he asserts that
"about their fins you may find a kind of
lowse which healeth a green cut in a
short time."

JUNE

Oh, Month, your name we shall not mention.
In verse it's had too much attention.
It rates a Tin-pan-alley pension.

H. E. W.

Sun rises: 4:08 High water: 11:38 A.M.

sets: 7:22 11:50 P.M.

SUNDAY. Five-day Kiwanis International Convention opens, * * *
This day in 1749 was said to be the hottest day ever in the northerly part
of America. * * * In 1875 on this day a fireworks factory exploded in
Roxbury. There was a lot of noise and a great deal of color, and it didn't
smell very well, either. * ♦ * Judge Dewey told a policeman on this day
in 1902 that he suffered from "impeded veracity." The judge freed an al-
leged drunk that the copper had arrested.

Sun rises: 4:08 High water:

sets: 7:23 12:27 P.M.

MONDAY. Tufts Commencement. On this day in 1819 Maine secured
her divorce from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and set up in busi-
ness for herself. Still to remain in the Union, it was believed. ♦ ♦ *
The city sold its last horse-drawn fire apparatus on this day in 1925.
Many an honest tear shed, too.

Sun rises: 4:08 High water: 12:42 A.M.

sets: 7:23 1:19 P.M.

TUESDAY. Exhibition of Masterpieces of Paintings, Prints and Draw-
ings from New England Collections at Museum of Fine Arts until Septem-
ber 17, * * * Magnificent new horse-cars, regular chariots, costing
$1,000 each, appeared on Boston Streets on this day in 1875. ♦ ♦ ♦ John
Emmons, head of the police, ordered an immediate war this day in 1904
on "sin in every form." It was about time, too.

Sun rises: 4:08 High water: 1:34 A.M.

sets: 7:23 2:11 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Class Day at Harvard. * * * Street fish peddlers were
forbidden by the city government in 1829 to use fish horns. * * * On
this day in 1929 Blackstone, the magician, was tied hand and foot, placed
in a specially made box and lowered into Fort Point Channel. He quickly
freed himself. Consensus on citizen opinion: "It was a trick."

Sun rises: 4:08
sets: 7:23

High water:

2:29 A.M.
3:07 P.M.

THURSDAY. Commencement day at Harvard. * * * More Wrestling
Matches at the Garden tonight. ♦ * ♦ The miller at Copp's Hill was
killed by lightning in 1642. * * * On this day in 1925 it was announced
that President Calvin Coolidge could be expected in Swampscott for the
summer. ♦ ♦ ♦ The old Fall River Line, once the most glamorous mode
of travel between Boston and New York, closed this day in 1937.

Sun rises: 4:09
sets: 7:23

High water:

3:26 A.M.
4:04 P.M.

FRIDAY. St. John's Eve. * * * On this day in 1827 the press deplored
the rush of farm youths to urban centers. ♦ * ♦ The machinists organ-
ized in 1852. They were sick of working twelve hours for a dollar a day.
* * * "A number of sets of teeth, both upper and lower," were offered
this day in 1875 for $5 as dentists put on a price war.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:09
7:23

High water:

4:26 A.M.
5:04 P.M.

SATURDAY. In 1827 the clergy were imploring the authorities to put
a stop to "beach deviltries." The women, they charged, were worse than
the men. ♦ ♦ ♦ The first issue of the Transcript appeared on this day in
1830. * * * In 1850 the press noted that "Some spendthrift citizens ad-
vocate planting a fine grove on Boston Common, sort of Baby Forest."
* * * Two years later Mount Hope Cemetery opened.

In the early eighteenth century Bos-
tonians apparently considered it very
bad form to appear in the least sur-
prised, irritated or even interested in
the sudden (and frequent) departure of
bond-servants or slaves. An air of bored
paternalism combined with a heavy
humor is to be found in the advertise-
ments of the period, of which the fol-
lowing is typical: "LOST: A Felt Hat,
a Cinnamon jacket, a pair of Leather
Breeches, white Cotton Stockings,
Square-toed Shoes — on the exterior of
Sam Nutt, Bonds-servant." Boston Ga-
zette, Aug. 3, 1724.

JUNE

From now till Labor Day you'll seek
That envied thing — a perfect tan,
And still be, after many a week.
As peeled as Prehistoric Man.

Sun rises: 4:09 High water: 5:29 A.M.

sets: 7:23 6:04 P.M.

SUNDAY. If you liked mutton, on this day in 1828 you could have
bought a whole sheep, for a dollar, if you had a dollar. ♦ ♦ ♦ This day
in 1850 Wendell Phillips asserted that the only way to save the country
was to form a third party. And, further, that if nobody else was willing
to do it, he would. * ♦ ♦ The funeral of Chu Shin Ying, a leading
Mason, was held in Chinatown on this day in 1900. There were thousands
of mourners, Chinese and American.

Sun rises: 4:09 High water: 6:34 A.M.

sets: 7:23 7:02 P.M.

MONDAY. National Tuberculosis Ass'n begins a four-day meeting at the
Statler. * * * On this day in 1649 the correct business day was outlined
when "Richard Taylor agreed with ye Selectmen to ringe ye bell at nine
of ye clock at night and a half hour after four in ye morninge and to have
for his recompense four pounds a year." ♦ ♦ * Point to remember:
Boston is 7.75 miles wide at its widest point, from Marine Park to the
western end of Brighton.

Sun rises: 4:10 High water: 7:36 A.M.

sets: 7:23 8:00 P.M.

TUESDAY. In 1868 both Boston and Georgia were claiming the dis-
covery of ether, so Oliver Wendell Holmes suggested that the inscription
on the Boston Ether Monument should be "Either." No action was taken
on the suggestion, or, so far as we know, on the Doctor, ether. ♦ * ♦
The legislature ratified the repeal of the 18th amendment to the Constitu-
tion of the United States on this day in 1933, and it took them twenty
minutes.

Sun rises: 4:10 High water: 8:34 A.M.

sets: 7:24 8:53 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. The Great and General Court on this day in 1704 passed
an act directing that the Militia at the frontiers be provided with snow
shoes. ♦ * ♦ The Advertising Clubs of America on this date in 1936
opened annual convention in Boston to observe the 25th anniversary of
the crusade for honesty in advertising.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:11
7:24

High water:

9:29 A.M.
9:43 P.M.

THURSDAY. The continued exclusion of the non-elect from the Cavalry
Company gave rise to talk on this day in 1827 of the need for a new or-
ganization to which "patriots" could belong. ♦ ♦ ♦ State Board of Edu-
cation established this day, 1837. ♦ ♦ ♦ Point to remember: The best
way to thaw out mittens is to place them in a dry closet and leave them
there till spring.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:11

7:24

High water:

10:18 A.M.
10:28 P.M.

FRIDAY. Seven pirates were executed on the Boston side of the Charles
River Flats on this day in 1704. ♦ ♦ ♦ "Home," said the members of the
Medical Society on this day in 1827. Occasion: The frivolity of certain
young women who let it be known that they desired to be Doctors. * ♦ *
The Red Lion on Hawley Street went in for an innovation on this day in
1850. It served free lunches to patrons. Copley Square restaurants please
copy.

JULY

Sun rises:
sets:

4:11

7:24

High water:

11:02 A.M.
11:10 P.M.

SATURDAY. Black Bass season opens. ♦ ♦ ♦ Capt. Kidd, his wife, and
a maid servant arrived in Boston on this day in 1699, foolishly trusting
in the safe conduct issued by the Governor. It was a mistake he lived to
regret — but not for long. ♦ ♦ ♦ This day in 1840 the Transcript soothed
its readers with the statement "We are requested to say that the Assessors
will assess such as have not been assessed until the 4th inst." ♦ ♦ ♦
First regular air mail to the West this day in 1926.

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In 1825 the Boston Commercial Ga-
zette squelched rumors that the Boston-
New Orleans mail was being tampered
with when it reported that the letters in
question had been sealed with wafers
rather than the conventional wax and
that cockroaches, "those dark and mid-
night robbers," had eaten the wafers,
thus unsealing the letters. Against this
menace "No penalty of the law or
vigilance of the officials can avail," de-
clared the editor.

JULY

Contrary to general belief July, not Au-
gust, is the warmest month of the year in
Boston. Calculated over a period of nearly
a century, the mean monthly temperature for
July is 72.1°, for August 70.1°. Nor has Au-
gust ever produced a temperature of 100°
although such a reading has been recorded
not only for July, but for June and September
as well.

Sun rises: 4:12 High water: 11:43 P.M.

sets: 7:24 11:50 P.M.

SUNDAY. Siege of Boston began this day in 1775. * * * On this day
in 1853, the Globe, torn between the sales value of the story and the fear
of shocking its readers, reported that Charles Scott was in court charged
with felonious assault on a young lady "with intent to etcetera." * ♦ *
In 1934 the Sumner Tunnel opened, with great pomp. The golden shears
used to cut the tape at the exercises cost $175. Single men on relief were
cut to $2 weekly.

Sun rises: 4:12 High water:

sets: 7:23 12:24 P.M.

MONDAY. Esplanade concerts begin about this time. * ♦ ♦ Born this
day in 1737 in Boston, John Singleton Copley. * * * On this day in
1775, a 43-year-old Virginian surveyor and Indian fighter took command
of the Continental Army at Cambridge. His name was Washington and
he turned out to be a pretty fair man for the job. ♦ ♦ ♦ Exactly 99
years later (1874 to you) Boston walloped the daylights out of New York
in a cricket game. Who cares about baseball, anyway?

Sun rises: 4:13 High water: 12:31 A.M.

sets: 7:23 1:03 P.M.

TUESDAY. Independence Day. * * * Fast of Tamuz (Jewish). * * *
308 years ago today was launched the Blessing of the Bay, first ship built
in Boston. * ♦ ♦ Cornerstone of State House laid this day in 1795, with
Gov. Samuel Adams and Free Mason Grand Master Paul Revere as princi-
pal figures. ♦ * ♦ This day in 1911 was the hottest ever recorded by
weather bureau in Boston — 104°.

Sun rises: 4:13 High water: 1:09 A.M.

sets: 7:23 1:44 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Harvard Summer School opens today. * * * The 5th
and 38th regiments arrived from England on this day in 1775 and were
greeted with a notable lack of enthusiasm by J. Hancock, S. Adams, and
their many irate friends. * * * In 1802 the Middlesex Canal was for-
mally opened. * ♦ ♦ Several responsible citizens saw a sea serpent off
Nahant this day in 1833.

6 Sun rises: 4:14 High water: 1:52 A.M.

sets: 7:23 2:23 P.M.

THURSDAY. In 1853 journeyman bakers were talking seriously of
striking for a $2 increase in the average weekly pay rate of $10. * * *
In 1865 Major Robert Anderson, formerly of Fort Sumter, S. C, was in
town. ♦ ♦ * Denton T. (Cy) Young, the Boston American pitcher, was
really "mowin' 'em down" in 1902. By this date he had already won 17
games and was leading both leagues.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:14
7:23

High water:

2:36 A.M.
3:05 P.M.

FRIDAY. Only 139 more shopping days to Christmas, * ♦ ♦ The most
disgusted man in town on this day in 1832 was Constable Thomas W.
Stoddard of Hingham, who while on a visit to the big city had his pockets
picked clean. The rascals even got his warrant as a constable. ♦ * ♦
In 1849 local Germans were busily recruiting a troop to aid in the revo-
lution at home.

Babes that are cute
Hardly need a debut

8 Sun rises: 4:15 High water: 3:20 A.M.

sets: 7:22 3:49 P.M.

SATURDAY. Hot, ain't it? * * * On this day in 1870, the Post livened
up its obituary notices with the statement "Nathaniel Wilson, the well
known living skeleton, died at his home last Friday." * * * In 1889,
after 75 rounds of thumping at Richburg, Miss., the last bare knuckle
heavyweight championship battle ended when John L. Sullivan, the
"Boston Strong Boy" knocked out Jake Kilrain, also of Boston and no
weakling himself. ♦ ♦ ♦ This day in 1918, State Rep. Morrill, optimistic
lone Socialist in the House, announced that on the following day he would
introduce a bill to abolish the Senate.

On July 3, 1728, Benjamin Wood-
bridge and Henry Phillips, after a little
serious drinking, decided they did not
like each other much and repaired to
the Common where they fought the first
duel in Boston. Woodbridge was fatally
wounded; Phillips, aided by relatives
and Peter Faneuil, escaped to France
on the man-of-war Sheerness, The town
was seething over the event and the fol-
lowing day many stringent laws were
enacted to prevent or punish future
dueling. Even those killed in dueling
were to be punished by denial of
Christian burial. They were to be in-
terred near the place of public execu-
tion with a stake driven through the
body.

JULY

I do not love thee, hot July,
With molten sun and brazen sky.
I'm dazzled by my sunburned beezer-
A murrain on thee, month of Caesar.

Sun rises: 4:15 High water: 4:07 A.M.

sets: 7:22 4:36 P.M.

SUNDAY. The prudent householder will see to it that the windows are
closed before leaving for the office this morning. It may rain. It did in
1878, anyway — came down in torrents, while lightning struck forty build-
ings and scattered debris throughout the city. This was a zephyr compared
with July 9, 1921, however, when 6.04 inches fell in twenty hours and
lightning struck in more than 100 places.

Ill Sun rises: 4:16 High water: 4:58 A.M.

JL Vy sets: 7:22 5:27 P.M.

MONDAY. Well, were we right about that rain? or weren't we? * * *
In 1826, Bostonians first heard on this day of the death of Thomas Jeffer-
son on the 4th of July preceding. * * * In 1853, the fishing was good
from the Craigie Bridge. Somebody caught a shark, if we remember cor-
rectly. * * * In 1935, magnificent Suffolk Downs opened with 35,000
hopefuls trying to outguess the horses, the jockeys, the owners, the train-
ers and the 10% machines. Many were called but few were chosen.

Stretch Call
Deceiving colt! Oh, loathsome foal!
You fainted at the furlong pole.

Sun rises: 4:17 High water: 5:54 A.M.

sets: 7:21 6:18 P.M.

TUESDAY. John Quincy Adams born in 1767. * ♦ * It was hot on this
day in 1849, too. The thermometer at the corner of Milk and Washington
Sts. was registering 99.5°. * * * In 1897, the mid-summer styles were
bowling the more susceptible males over — what with spinnaker sleeves,
hippodromes, trains and fancy neckpieces leaving everything to the
imagination.

Sun rises: 4:18 High water: 6:50 A.M.

sets: 7:21 7:11 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. With the British in complete possession of the town on
this day in 1775, Bostonians held their town meeting in Concord. * ♦ ♦
In 1828, the aldermen ordered a five-minute limit for omnibus parking
and exactly 100 years later the Traveler was carrying another bus story
on its front page. The amazing feat of a woman who had crossed the entire
continent on one. * ♦ ♦ Dial telephones first used in Metropolitan Boston
on the Aspinwall exchange this day in 1923.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:18
7:20

High water:

7:45 A.M.
8:04 P.M.

THURSDAY. In 1839, there was a memorable hail storm in Waltham
on this day. Some of the stones were six inches in circumference. * ♦ *
The public was getting fed up with traction agents who wanted to lay
horse car tracks on every main street in the city in 1853. * * * In 1907,
more than twenty auto speeders were caught in the Hull highway trap.
Some of these conscienceless fiends were doing almost 20 m.p.h.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:19
7:20

High water: 8:40 A.M.
8:57 P.M.

FRIDAY. Bastille Day. * * * In 1826, the town was scandalized to
find that the cows pastured on the Common were on a jag from eating
waste rum currants. * * ♦ Conscription riots in the North End this day
in 1863, instigated and led by women. * * * In 1874, General Tom
Thumb was here and on this day in 1929 the first open air Esplanade
Concert by members of the Boston Symphony took place.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:20
7:19

High water:

9:34 A.M.
9:49 P.M.

SATURDAY. St. Swithins Day. * ♦ ♦ Trout Season closes. ♦ ♦ ♦
In 1849, the tailors were threatening to organize. They objected to work-
ing 16 hours a day for an average daily wage of 65 cents. ♦ ♦ ♦ The
kissing bug was bothering everybody in 1899. * ♦ ♦ Franklin Square
House formally opened this day in 1902. ♦ * ♦ Total eclipse of the moon
this day in 1935.

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Of the many hair-raising treatments
used by early Colonial medicos in their
battle with New England diseases (chief
of which, according to John Josselyn,
were "The black pox, the spotted feaver,
the griping of the guts, the dropsie and
the sciatica") none were more wistfully
wackie than that recommended by Sir
Kenelm Digby, in his letter of Jan. 26,
1656 to John Winthrop.

"For Ulcers and broken bones, beat
to a powder one ounce of crabs' eyes,
then put it in a high glass with four
ounces of strong vinegar. Boil it, then
let it stand till all is quiet, then strain
it through a fine linen: and of this
liquor (which will then taste like dead
beer without any sharpness) give two
spoonfulls at a time to drink three
times; and you shall see a strange ef-
fect in a week or two."

JULY

Whenas in shorts my Julia goes
Then, then to my surprise, she shows
Both knees that knock and pigeon toes.

Sun rises: 4:21 High water: 10:26 A.M.

sets: 7:18 10:40 P.M.

SUNDAY. This day in 1722, Governor Shute proclaimed a General Fast
— "that the Indians . . . may be restrained from making further insults
on His Majesties good Subjects, by destroying their substance, and carry-
ing them into a Cruel Captivity, and that the Pirates, those Sons of Vio-
lence, may be prevented from doing any further mischief on our Sea-
Coasts." * * * In 1834, the Harvard faculty was peeved at the senior
class and refused to attend the valedictory on this day.

Sun rises: 4:22 High water: 11:17 A.M.

sets: 7:17 11:32 P.M.

MONDAY. The Boston Gazette for this date in 1769 was pretty worried
about "a small red cow strayed away from the common." * * * In 1854,
the Mass. Emigrant Society was waving goodbye to its first batch of
settlers on the way to "Bleeding Kansas." * * * Point to remember:
Highest point in the city is the top of the Custom House tower, which is
exactly 510.71 feet above mean low water.

Sun rises: 4:22 High water:

sets: 7:17 12:08 P.M.

TUESDAY. This day in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was first
read to the townspeople from the balcony of the Town House (Old State
House). The Lion and the Unicorn was ripped from the building and
joyously burned. * * * In 1828, one Asa Paine had one big pain after
devouring five quarts of green peas, six bunches of radishes, and four
heads of "sallat." He won the bet, though.

Sun rises: 4:23 High water: 12:25 A.M.

sets: 7:16 12:59 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. The versatile Mr. Paul Revere was advertising as a
dentist on this day in 1770. * * * In 1828, there was a big stage coach
war in progress. An "opposition" line was running an 11-hour flyer be-
tween Boston and Concord, N. H. * * * In 1849, Roxbury Neck was a
stylish and thriving summer resort.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:24
7:15

High water:

1:19 A.M.
1:52 P.M.

THURSDAY. On this day in 1704 the Boston News Letter reported the
death of Capt. Peregrine White, born 84 years before in Cape Cod Bay
on the Mayflower. "Although he was in the former part of his life ex-
travagant; yet he was much reformed in his last years and died hopefully."
* * * First Cunarder, the Britannia, entered Boston harbor this day in
1840 and — oh, yes! Well reputed citizens saw a sea serpent off Marble-
head this day in 1897.

Friend, let us meditate upon
Tom Collins and his brother John.

Sun rises: 4:25
sets: 7:14

High water:

2:12 A.M.
2.46 P.M.

FRIDAY. At a mass meeting at Faneuil Hall on this day in 1779 it was
decided that "any person refusing continental money to be considered
an enemy." Which was certainly penalizing common sense. ♦ ♦ ♦ Point
to remember: In 1824 the "Take" for dog and cow licenses amounted to
$3,247. * * * In 1828 the radical modernist Frances Wright was advo-
cating companionate marriage and on this day in 1833 the American Peace
Society offered $1,000 for a "perfect" plan for world peace.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:26
7:13

High water:

3:09 A.M.
3:41 P.M.

SATURDAY. If the above doesn't convince you that "There's nothing
new, etc." please be advised that there was a "Bee Hive" in Boston long
before Bob Qu inn's arrival. It was on Prince Street and did quite a busi-
ness until an irate mob wrecked it on this day in 1825. ♦ ♦ * The cholera
epidemic was spreading rapidly at this time in 1849. ♦ ♦ ♦ Those of the
upper crust who weren't too scared to think were purple in the face over
the bathing beauty illustration in the current Godey's Lady Book.

The Middlesex Canal was 27 miles
long with eight different levels varying
from one to six miles in length and
connected by 16 locks. Five other locks
provided access to the Merrimack, Con-
cord, Charles and Mystic Rivers. The
opening of the Canal in 1802 brought
a new era in transportation and in
recreation, too. In summer the tow
path was a veritable Lover's Lane and
in the winter the Canal bed was a para-
dise for ice-skaters, with parties fre-
quently making the trip from Boston to
Lowell and return in an afternoon and

evenmg.

JULY

Indabitable
Boston State-house is the hub of the solar
system. You couldn't pry that out of a Bos-
ton man if you had the tire of all creation
straightened out for a crow-bar.

0. W. Holmes •

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^^ ^i Sun rises: 4:27 High water: 4:07 A.M.

^JV^ sets: 7:13 4:39 P.M.

SUNDAY. On this day in 1739 the ?ost carried the following intriguing
notice, "Any person that wants a wet-nurse in a Family, may hear of one
with a good Breast of Milk, that can be well recommended by the Printer.
N.B. She is a married woman, but her Husband is abroad; is a notable
Housewife, and willing to put her hand to any sort of business. A very
Tare thing in a nurse." * * * On this day in 1842 the capstone of
Bunker Hill monument was put in place. * * * In 1853 the Constitu-
tional Convention established a Council for the Governor — and — oh, yes!
A whole crowd of responsible citizens saw a mermaid with golden hair
on the rocks off Marine Park, South Boston, on this day in 1909.

^^^Jl Sunrises: 4:28 High water: 5:07 A.M.

^JTT sets: 7:12 5:39 P.M.

MONDAY. Mr. Samuel Brackenbury predicted "some smart thunder"
for this day in 1667. We don't know how he came out on this, but our
aching bunions tell us it'll rain today. * * * On this day in 1938 the
Boston Lightkeeper had broken a 222-year-old record by blowing his fog
horn 7,320 times in the preceding 61 hours.

^ 1^ Sun rises: 4:29 High water: 6:12 A.M.

£^\J sets: 7:11 6:39 P.M.

TUESDAY. Fast of Ah (Jewish), * * * This day in 1839 officials in
charge of the afternoon concerts on the Common were ordered to see
that no "children under 19 years of age" were lost. * * * In 1861 the
Common was being used for other purposes. War meetings were held
here and the Old South Church was a recruiting station. * * ♦ The bonds
of matrimony were being strained to the breaking point at this time in
1897 what with some hussies not wearing stockings while bathing on
public beaches and the Yukon gold rush and all.

^ C^ Sun rises: 4:30 High water: 7:15 A.M.

^^^\J sets: 7:10 7:38 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. It was decided to pave Washington St. with wood blocks
instead of cobblestones this day in 1853. * * * In 1921 the Ponzi "get
rich quick" bubble was bursting all over the place on this day. ♦ ♦ *
Advice to crap-shooters: It may not improve your game to know it, but
you have one chance in six to throw a seven, one chance in eighteen to
throw an eleven, on any given roll. In other words, the odds are nine to
two against your winning on the first toss of the bones.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:31
7:09

High water:

8:16 A.M.
8:33 P.M.

THURSDAY. Most important arrivals in town this day in 1660 were
Edward Whalley and William Goffe, the regicides. ♦ * • This day in
1847 iron seats replaced wooden ones on the Common. Confirmed whittlers
were disgusted. The pigeons didn't seem to notice any diflference. ♦ ♦ ♦
In 1853 Lords and Ladies were as thick as flies at the Tremont House,
according to the Traveller,

Few glamorous wenches

Are found on park benches.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:32
7:08

High water:

9:10 A.M.
9:23 P.M.

FRIDAY. Weather: Hot. * * * The Anti-Sabbath Travel League was
formed this day in 1828, if you care. * * * In 1897 there was a deluge
of rain on this day in Boston, with a snow storm in some nearby towns.
* * * In 1903 Bostonians were staring in amazement at the new horseless
fire engine at the Bristol St. Station.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:33
7:07

High water:

9:57 A.M.
10:08 P.M.

SATURDAY. Weather: Hotter. * * * Castle Island fortified on this
day in 1634. * * * In 1849 the Brook Farmers were doing very well, the
Traveller reported, ♦ ♦ * Fashion decreed lower stocks for men at this
time in 1853, and those who had ear-lobes exposed them to the light of
day. ♦ * * Eclipse of the sun in 1878.

The Indian Wowaus, known to the
English as "James, the Printer," had
been invaluable to Eliot in the printing
of the Indian Bible, being the only per-
son able to set up and correct proofs.
When King Philip's War broke out,
however, he turned his talents to other
fields. He decorated the trees of the
forest with his pidgin English taunts
and in July, 1676, sent the following
to the Governor and Council at Boston:
"All you fine houses you lost, and you
Squaws and you child. You eyes much
big with crying, and now on your back-
side stand."

JULY

Our Favorite Epitaph

JONA. MANN

Born Dec. 7, 1786 Died April 23, 1873

His truthfulness no one doubted.
He was very poor, consequently not respected.

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Sun rises: 4:34 High water: 10:40 A.M.

sets: 7:06 10:49 P.M.

SUNDAY. Weather: More hotter, ♦ ♦ ♦ Feast of St. Joseph, Italian
festival on Hanover Street, near Battery, * ♦ * First Lodge of Free
Masons in New England (and maybe in America) organized this day in
1733 by Henry Price at the "Bunch of Grapes" tavern. * ♦ ♦ According
to the Columbian Centinel for this day in 1800 "an infancy of indulgence
produces a youth of dissipation, a manhood of insignificance and an old
age of contempt."

Sun rises: 4:35 High water: 11:20 A.M.

sets: 7:05 11:28 P.M.

MONDAY. Weather: Well, is it hot enough for you? ♦ ♦ * After nine
years in ofl&ce during which time he had irritated everybody and raised
hell generally, Governor Bernard was recalled to England on this day in
1769. * * * On this day in 1907 the new $3,000,000 Longfellow Bridge
was dedicated. ♦ * * Point to remember: In the Presidential election of
1904, Massachusetts gave 4,286 votes to the Prohibition Party's candidate,
whose name was, of all things, Swallow.

AUGUST

ISun rises: 4:36 High water: 11:56 A.M.

sets: 7:04

TUESDAY. Lammas Day. * * ♦ First breach of promise case in Amer-
ica this day in 1633, when the Court ordered "that Joyce Bradwicke shall
give unto Alex. Becke the sum twenty shillings, for promiseing him mar-
riage without her friend's consent, and nowe refusing to performe the
same." * * * In 1933 the first Blue Eagles made their appearance.

Sun rises: 4:37 High water: 12:05 A.M.

sets: 7:03 12:33 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. In 1841, you could have got a real bargain from L. G.
Gaskill, at 33 Washington Street, in "Cambridge Cloths, Crape Camlets,
Princettas, Erminetts, Gambroons and Neopolitane Cloths," while the
furniture house at 2 Union Street (upstairs) would, for a small payment
in advance, "fill up your house with furniture and wait patiently for the
remainder." ♦ ♦ ♦ First street collection letter boxes in America in-
stalled in Boston in 1858. No home deliveries yet, though.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:38
7:02

High water:

12:43 A.M.
1:10 P.M.

THURSDAY. Koussevitzky and the Symphony are at "Tanglewood^'
until the 13th. * * * On this day 447 years ago three ships left Palos,
Spain, heading westward. * * * The use of opium was becoming a very
strong habit with many prominent Bostonians in 1834, and there was a
loud demand for regulatory laws. * ♦ ♦ Point to remember: While the
average life expectancy has greatly extended in the last 75 years, that of
U. S. Presidents has decreased. Before 1860 it was 73.8 years; since then,
62.4 years. From Washington to Roosevelt it averages 68.3.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:39
7:01

High water:

1:22 A.M.
1:48 P.M.

FRIDAY. Despite jeers and jibes Henry Sargent and others petitioned
for a Railroad terminal site on this day in 1827. ♦ ♦ * Any number of
really dependable people saw a sea serpent cavorting merrily along the
coast between Boston and Portsmouth on this day in 1830. ♦ * * Shirley
Temple was made Admiral of the Swan Boat Fleet in the Public Garden
in 1938.

For safety s sake, dear Comrade Temple
Please cover that subversive dimple!

Sun rises:
sets:

4:40
7:00

High water:

2:03 A.M.
2:28 P.M.

SATURDAY. Born this day in 1604 John Eliot, "Apostle to the In-
dians." * * * It took only 36 hours to get to Philadelphia in 1827 by
stage-coach, boat and another stage-coach. * * * On this day in 1877
there were 2332 licensed liquor purveyors in the city.

On the books of the General Court
for some time, and up for revival as
far as we're concerned, "Ye mocion to
sing shall ye firste; and let it bee right
saintlie."

AUGUST

Oh, I would go down to the sea again —
But never again without a top
To those abbreviated trunks
That so enraged a certain cop.

Sun rises: 4:41 High water: 2:44 A.M.

sets: 6:58 3:10 P.M.

SUNDAY. Feast of the Transfiguration. * * * In 1855 the city was
annoyed by a gang of rowdies who were breaking the monotony of the
long summer evenings by beating up the police in Essex Street. Another
minor irritation was the number of mosquitoes about. Favorite remedy
was the application of moistened cigar ashes to the injured spot.

# Sun rises: 4:42 High water: 3:29 A.M.

X sets: 6:57 3:55 P.M.

MONDAY. The West Point cadets made their first visit to town on this
day in 1821. Everybody turned out to see them march, including a lot of
folks from the neighboring towns. * ♦ * Boston was all stirred up in
1880 over the prospect of the construction of an elevated railway.

Sun rises: 4:43 High water: 4:20 A.M.

sets: 6:55 4:46 P.M.

TUESDAY. New England Rum was retailing at 35ff a gallon in 1827.
Gentlemen were expected to bring their own containers. * ♦ * Spiritual-
ist mediums were holding a convention in Washington Hall in 1852.
* * * The four best-sellers locally in 1910 were Simon the Jester by
William J. Locke, Nathan Burke by Mary Watts, The Rosary by Florence
Barclay, and The Depot Master by Joseph T. Lincoln.

Sun rises: 4:44 High water: 5:19 A.M.

sets: 6:54 5:40 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. All business suspended this day in 1642. Everybody who
was anybody was over at "Newetowne" where the college was holding its
first commencement. * * ♦ A "Dreadful fate awaits those who travel by
proposed steam railways," it was dispassionately predicted on this day in
1827 by a Stage Line publication.

Sun

sets:

4:45
6:53

High water:

6:16 A.M.
6:38 P.M.

THURSDAY. Feast of St. Lawrence. * * * On this day in 1902 the
Reverend William Hyde announced that he had traced the descent of King
Edward of England straight from the Biblical King David. * * * In
1934 agitation was beginning for the repeal of the 1880 law which banned
shorts by insisting that women sportsmen be covered from neck to knee.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:46
6:52

High water:

7:15 A.M.
7:35 P.M.

FRIDAY. Weather: No weather today. * * ♦ Italian Festival: Maria
Santissima Delia Cava — held on Hanover Street, near Battery. * * *
This day in 1827 the Editor of the Traveller boiled over at the scandalous
behavior of some "old ladies." He called them "perambulating amalgama-
tions of the ornaments and habiliments of youth, clashing with the mourn-
ful realities of age." Which was coming right out.

Sun rises:
sets:

4:47
6:50

High water:

8:14 A.M.
8:33 P.M.

SATURDAY. Weather: No weather again today! This is terrible! * * *
A bull market in the book trade this day in 1726 with the publication of
A Short Discourse showing that all that Unconverted men do is Sin, (Gen.
6:5), giving a rational account of how it comes to pass. * * * Style
note: Hairdressing in 1880, — long coils interlaced with pearls — or near-
pearls.

On August 5, 1632, Mecumel, one of
the great sachems of the Narragansetts,
"came down to Boston to make peace or
a league with the English either out of
fear or love." It was Sunday and he and
his party went to the English meeting-
house. Three of the Indians became so
hungry during the course of the long
sermon that they sneaked out and broke
into a private home to rustle up a little
chow. For this the sachem promptly ran
them out of town.

AUGUST

Nice Baby
Here's to my thrifty wife who'll roam
The basements and neglect her home,
Hoping to find at $1.98
My two-dollar shirts — and she'll take eight!

Sun rises: 4:48 High water: 9:11 A.M.

sets: 6:49 9:28 P.M.

SUNDAY. On this day in 1812 the point was put very clearly: "In case
of riot they (100 special watchmen) are to toll the bells, — all military
companies, magistrates and constables will hold themselves in readiness;
and all hoys or apprentices who do not wish to he considered rioters will
remain indoors." * * * The Boston Athletic Association shut up its club-
house on this day in 1935.

Sun rises: 4:49 High water: 10:04 A.M.

sets: 6:48 10:23 P.M.

MONDAY. On this day in 1693 Jennie Lightheifer, half-Indian maid-
servant, confounded all bystanders by standing on her head beside the
town pump. Her mistress was summoned and Jennie was led away.
Jennie's explanation, "I wanted to see how things looked." Her report,
"Just like ordinary, only the other way round." * ♦ * Smokers were
called shocking names on this day in 1855 as another anti-smoking crusade
got under way.

Sun rises: 4:50 High water: 10:55 A.M.

sets: 6:47 11:15 P.M.

TUESDAY. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. * * * John Sampson
and William Hudson were on this day in 1636 appointed "Water-balies to
see that noe annoying things, eyther by fish, wood or stone, be left about
ye sea shore." ♦ * * Boston was guffawing in 1852, when 55 Indiamen
came into port. Only 28 went to New York.

Sun rises: 4:15 High water: 11:46 A.M.

sets: 6:45

WEDNESDAY. When Thomas Salter died in 1714, his heirs gave him
a good send-off. One item on the funeral bill was for 33 gallons of wine.
And when they said wine in those days, they meant hard liquor. ♦ ♦ ♦
The Traveller unbended enough on this day in 1830 to observe that
"There is still much liberality and enterprise in Salem." Word had come
that the Salem Lyceum was to have a suitable building,

Sun rises: 4:52 High water: 12:07 A.M.

sets: 6:44 12:37 P.M.

THURSDAY. The police purity squad announced on this day in 1902
that policy and other gambling rackets were to be banned from Boston
forever. Since that date not a single Bostonian has played a number
straight, box or bleeder. * * * In 1937, the Federal Writers' Project's
Massachusetts Guide appeared, thus precipitating a major crisis in the
government of the Commonwealth.

Sun rises: 4:53 High water: 1:00 A.M.

sets: 6:42 1:28 P.M.

FRIDAY. // you missed the Dahlias at Horticultural Hall yesterday,
this is your last chance. * * * On this day in 1731 the Great and Gen-
eral Court published Three Acts. 1. For the better curing and culling of
fish. 2. For better regulating swine. 3. For Encouraging the killing of Wild
Cats. * * * In 1936, Mr. Jack Sharkey of Boston and Mr. Joe Louis of
Detroit got together in a New York Baseball park. Mr. Sharkey turned
out to be better at catching than pitching and got that tired feeling in the
3rd inning.

Sun rises: 4:54 High water: 1:53 A.M.

sets: 6:41 2:21 P.M.

SATURDAY. Italian Festival: Madonna del Soccorso — held on North
Street, near Fleet. * * * Hanged this day in Salem in 1692, George
Burrough, John Willard, Jno. Proctor, Martha Carrier and George Jacobs.
* * * Much rejoicing among males in 1877 at the news that "Stupid
senseless fashion of gloves for men," said to be doomed. * * ♦ Alice
Roosevelt, a friend, and a chauffeur made a motor trip on this day in
1902 from Newport to Boston in a little less than six hours. Popular rock-
ing chair query: What will that Roosevelt girl do next?

T 'Wharf Soliloquy
Little artist on the wharf,
Dont you think you've done enorf?

An addition to the many humane and
charitable organizations of the city was
made on Nov. 10, 1901, when an As-
sociation for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Coachmen and Cabmen was formed.
The Women's Temperance Society, of
which Bishop Lawrence was president,
undertook the work of organizing the
group. The object of the Association
was to counteract as far as possible the
prevailing custom of liquor drinking
by these often overworked drivers.

AUGUST

There was an old lady in Dorchester
Who used to sit out on her porchester,
Till along came a spider
And sat down beside her —
And as far as I know, they are still rocking
back and forth on her porchester.

Sun rises: 4:55 High water: 2:48 A.M.

sets: 6:39 3:15 P.M.

SUNDAY. On this date in 1834 a girl who had pulled the nose of a
writing master in the Wells School cheerfully paid a fine of $1. * * *
One of the earliest mass flights of war planes over the city occurred this
day in 1923 when 21 army flyers from Langley Field, Va., astounded the
looker uppers. * * ♦ New North Station opened in 1928 with overpower-
ing ceremonies.

Sun rises: 4:56 High water: 3:45 A.M.

sets: 6:38 4:11 P.M.

MONDAY. Four-day National Convention of Postal Supervisors opens
at the Statler. * * ♦ Press notice this day in 1729, "Powers Marriott,
Boston Banker, has lost his wigg; it is a light, flaxen, natural one, parted
from forehead to crown. The ribbon is red-pink in color. Information
about said Wigg will make you richer by twenty shillings." * * * An
installment agent supported by constables arrived at 517 Columbus Ave-
nue on this day in 1884. They were met by several embattled females.
Items involved: pistol, hatchet, dog, teeth.

Sun rises: 4:58 High water: 4:45 A.M.

sets: 6:36 5:12 P.M.

TUESDAY. Boston's most famous weather vane, the grasshopper on
Faneuil Hall, was taken down this day in 1827 and regilded for the first
time in 66 years. ♦ ♦ * Reverend George C. Weems accused this day in
1887 of conduct both unclerical and out of season. Charged with pinching
a fur coat from the State House.

Sun rises: 4:59 High water: 5:47 A.M.

sets: 6:35 6:12 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Fair and reassuring warning in 1753, "There are now
passing among us counterfeit half Pistareens; they are white, will easily
bend and may be known to be bad by Persons of very little judgment if
they view 'em with any Attention." * ♦ ♦ Sentence was executed this day
in 1927 on the bodies of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

Sun rises: 5:00
sets: 6:33

High water:

6:51 A.M.
7:12 P.M.

THURSDAY. Weather: Still hot, with three big clouds and 37 little
white clouds, * * * In 1789, a careful census showed that Boston had
2,639 houses, stores and public buildings, exclusive of sugar houses, dis-
tilleries, rope walks, stables, and little white clouds. * ♦ * Huge horse-
loving crowd in 1859 at South End Park. Mare Flora Temple won three
straight heats over Princess. Best time: 2.261^.

Sun rises: 5:01
sets: 6:31

High water:

7:51 A.M.
8:10 P.M.

FRIDAY. Italian Festival: San Antonio di Padova — held on North Mar-
gin Street. ♦ * ♦ A killing frost this day in 1884. * ♦ * President
Theodore Roosevelt in town this day in 1902. Dinner for him at the
Touraine. * * * Point to remember: A good way to regulate the tem-
perature of the water in your bath-tub is to poke your hand in from time
to time and then twist the faucet to suit.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:02
6:30

High water:

8:45 A.M.
9:00 P.M.

SATURDAY. 244 of the 755 vessels that left Atlantic ports for Cali-
fornia during the gold rush of 1849 sailed from Massachusetts, the greater
part of them from Boston. * * * Hundreds went to Quincy this day in
1911 to witness the launching of the Rivadavia, largest battleship in the
world. For the Argentine, of all places.

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On August 27, 164^, the ship Mary
Rose, out of Bristol and carrying 21
barrels of gunpowder, was blown up in
Boston Harbor, "making of itself a
great disaster." All of the fifteen per-
sons aboard were killed except one, who
"being carried up in a scuttle and so
let fall in the same into the water, and
being taken up in the ferry boat, near
dead, he came to himself the next morn-
ing but could not tell anything of the
blowing up of the ship or how he came
there."

AUGUST

The first printing press in the Colony was set
up and operated by Stephen Daye at Cam-
bridge in 1640. The Freeman s Oath was the
first thing printed, followed by an Almanack
for New England by Capt. William Pierce,
Marriner, and the Psalms, "newly turned into

Sun rises: 5:03 High water: 9:32 A.M.

sets: 6:28 9:45 P.M.

SUNDAY. Mr. Henry Dunster chosen to be first president of "their new
Harvard Colledge" by the ministers of the colony this day in 1640. * ♦ *
Said Lafayette to the people of Boston on this day in 1824, "The emotions
of love and gratitude which I have been accustomed to feel on entering
this city, have ever been mingled with a sense of religious reverence for
the cradle of 'American,' and, let me hope, it will hereafter be said
'Universal,' liberty."

Sun rises: 5:04 High water: 10:13 A.M.

sets: 6:27 10:26 P.M.

MONDAY. The Red Sox might win today, maybe, I hope. * * * On
this day in 1834 Professor Durant flew from Boston Common to Mount
Auburn. He was wearing a balloon. ♦ ♦ ♦ Attorney-General Knowlton
on this day in 1905 let the women bathers have it straight from the
shoulder. He called their shoreside activities "indecent wallowing in the
sand."

Sun rises: 5:05 High water: 10:50 A.M.

sets: 6:25 11:02 P.M.

TUESDAY. Oliver Wendell Holmes born in 1809. * ♦ * Boston gave
ex-President Franklin Pierce a great welcome this day in 1859 at the
Tremont House. He was just back from a European tour. * ♦ ♦ The
world's champion bigamist was believed to be in town in 1905. Boston
police were asked to arrest Dr. George A. Witzhoff on sight. He was ac-
cused of having married 500 women.

Sun rises: 5:06 High water: 11:26 A.M.

sets: 6:23 11:40 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Dr. John W. Webster was hanged this day in 1850 for
the murder of Dr. George Parkman on the 23rd of the previous November
at the Medical College. ♦ ♦ ♦ Point to remember: 11,504 Bostonians
died during 1936, which figures out to be a death rate of 13.9 per 1000
population. Since 1910 the rate for the entire State has been 13.2.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:07
6:21

High water:

12:01 P.M.

THURSDAY. Boston went to Revere on this day in 1902 to see Carrie
Nation and hear her pious remarks about men and things. She called
Teddy a "beer -swigging Dutchman." * * * Henry James dropped in, in
1904, after an absence of 20 years. * * ♦ Total eclipse this day in 1932.

SEPTEMBER

Sun rises:
sets:

5:08
6:20

High water: 12:16 A.M.
12:36 P.M.

FRIDAY. On this day in 1833 Alexander Black was in court for "cruelly
striking his wife." He was fined $3.33, which seems to us an intriguing
sum, fraught with all kinds of interesting possibilities for the mathem-
atically minded. ♦ * * First subway in U. S., from Boylston St. to Park
St. opened this day in 1897. * ♦ ♦ 60,000 at Braves Field this day in
1933 to see Boston play a double-header against New York. The Giants —
durn 'em — won both, 2-0 and 5-3.

2 Sun rises: 5:09 High water: 12:54 A.M.

sets: 6:18 1:13 P.M.

SATURDAY. On this day in 1826 the continued violation of the old law
against masquerade balls brought an order to the police to arrest all at-
tendants of such shindigs as "revellers." * ♦ * Mrs. Frank H. Millet, 18,
made an informal women's diving record this day in 1905. Her start was
a run at Marston's Coal Wharf near the Dover Street Bridge. Her stop
was the harbor 95 feet below.

Among the hundreds of early auto-
mobile speeding cases (all of which
now seem to be lifted directly from a
comic opera libretto) none is more
completely satisfying than that involv-
ing a Mr. C. H. Cole of Middletown,
Conn., who, on Sept. 3, 1904, was in
Boston Municipal Court charged with
attempting "to melt the asphalt on
Commonwealth Avenue" the previous
afternoon. Patrolman Hyde of Station
16 said Cole was doing not less than
19 miles an hour, and that "it made his
(Hyde's) hair stand on end" just to see
it. Cole's excuse was that his brakes
were out of order and he had not dared
to use them coming down the hill. He
then added a deft touch by admitting
shyly that his outrageous speed was due
in part to Boston's magnificent roads.
He paid a fine of five dollars.

SEPTEMBER

O paradoxical Labor Day,
Whose hours are consecrate to play,
We toil not, neither do we spin
When thy fair dawn is ushered in.

Sun rises: 5:10 High water: 1:34 A.M.

sets: 6:16 1:52 P.M.

SUNDAY. On this day in 1633 "Robert Coles is fined ten shillings and
enjoyned to stand with a white sheet of paper on his backe, wherein *a
drunkard' shall be written in great letters, and to stand therewith as long
as the Court thinks meete, for abuseing himself shamefully with drinke,
inticeing John Shotswells wife to incontenancy and other misdemeanor."
* * * Ship to shore air-mail service began this day in 1928 when mail
was flown from the He de France, oflf Halifax, to Boston.

Sun rises: 5:11 High water: 2:15 A.M.

sets: 6:14 2:34 P.M.

MONDAY. Labor Day, * * * Annual Scottish games today at Cale-
donia Grove, * * * The General Court in 1632 required Sagamore John,
"a tractable Indian," to promise that "the next year and forever after he
would fence his corn against all kinds of cattle." The corn was allergic
to cattle, the cattle allergic to fences, and the Indians even more grievously
allergic to the construction of fences. Hence. * ♦ * Haley's comet over
town this day in 1835. * * * A North Station policeman sized up a guy
as a loafer, told him to move on, this day in 1905. It turned out to be the
Hon. Elihu Root.

Sun rises: 5:12 High water: 3:01 A.M.

sets: 6:13 3:20 P.M.

TUESDAY. On this day in 1661 Eliot's translation of the New Testa-
ment into the Indian language was published. * * * Yellow fever broke
out at the quarantine station here on this day in 1880. * * * In 1903 the
police, equipped with the new-fangled flashlights, were out on the Charles
after canoe-petters, despite defense counsel's plea against unlawful in-
trusion.

Sun rises: 5:13 High water: 3:51 A.M.

sets: 6:11 4:10 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. In 1636 "Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Aplegate (of Wey-
mouth) was censured to stand with her tongue in a cleft stick for swear-
ing, railing, and revileing." ♦ ♦ ♦ Born today in 1757 the Marquis de
Lafayette. ♦ * ♦ Yellow Day caused by forest fires in Michigan and
Ontario in 1881, and it was followed by one of the hottest days on record.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:14
6:10

High water:

4:46 A.M.
5:08 P.M.

THURSDAY. // all the minors who start back to public school today
were laid end to end there'd be an awful howl from the S.P.C.C. ♦ * *
Ordered this day in 1630 that Trimountaine shall be called Boston. It
still is. * * * When Martin Walton, the notorious highwayman, died this
day in 1859 in State Prison he left an account of his life written by him-
self. It was printed, too. And bound in his own skin. * ♦ * This day in
1892 the Pride of Boston, John L. Sullivan, lost his last battle to James
J. Corbett. The fight went 21 rounds.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:15
6:08

High water:

5:47 A.M.
6:10 P.M.

FRIDAY. The Transcript confided on this day in 1842 "We yesterday
saw a little, smutty, ragged urchin apparently not more than eight or ten
years of age, seated on a doorstep in the vicinity of Devonshire Street;
sucking and puffing away at a 'long nine' with as complacent and satis-
factory an air as ever Spaniard pufi"ed Imperial trabuso; verily, this is
an age of all sorts of things." A stop has been put to that sort of thing
and to that sort of sentence. * * * The Boston airport opened in 1923.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:16
6:06

High water;

6:50 A.M.
7:11 P.M.

SATURDAY. The Judicial Court Memorandum for this day in 1787:
One burglar to be hung ; five female thieves to be whipped ; two big thieves
to sit on the gallows; one counterfeiter to stand in the pillory, and have
right ear cut ofif. * * * The fact that a doctor, a dentist, an undertaker,
and a coffin maker were on the same floor of a downtown office building
made a good opening for a hot weather story on this day in 1855. ♦ ♦ ♦
Boston Police strike began at 5 :45 P.M. this day in 1919.

The earliest local record we have been
able to find of a small vehicle disputing
the right of way with a locomotive is a
report of such an event at Newton on
Sept. 1, 1834, when Mr. and Mrs. Isaac
Hird of Charlestown won a moral vic-
tory by derailing the engine and smash-
ing two cars at a total cost of one horse
and one buggy. Neither of the rugged
individualists was injured.

SEPTEMBER

flpi Some think Utopia,

Includes a Myopia.
But as to polo
I plead nolo.

Sun rises: 5:17 High water: 7:50 A.M.

sets: 6:04 8:11 P.M.

SUNDAY. L. Norcross of Dixfield, Maine, jumped into Boston Harbor
several times on this day in 1834. He didn't get wet, though, and he didn't
get arrested. He was demonstrating his new water-proof garment. * * *
Bowdoin Square was the wickedest spot in the whole wide world, on
September 10, 1905, according to divers clergymen who felt that they
knew.

Sun rises: 5:19 High water: 8:48 A.M.

sets: 6:03 9:10 P.M.

MONDAY. American Chemical Society Convention opens. Lasts through
Friday. * * * On THIS day in 1833 it was disclosed that Boston dis-
tilleries were producing 15,000 gallons of rum EVERY DAY. * * *
The Ben Franklin statue arrived in town this day in 1856 and was set up
in front of City Hall, as you can plainly see.

Sun rises: 5:20 High water: 9:43 A.M.

sets: 6:01 10:05 P.M.

TUESDAY. Boston Furniture Show, Inc. opens today at Mechanics
Building and lasts until the 16th, ♦ * * The first local peaches were on
the market this day in 1828 for such as were able to pay 3^ per dozen.
* * * Eminent citizens of Boston were loud in protest against women
clad in men's attire, riding high-wheeled bicycles, on this day in 1884.

Sun rises: 5:21 High water: 10:34 A.M.

sets: 5:59 10:58 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. The Anti-Masonic Convention in session here on this
day in 1833 nominated John Quincy Adams for Governor. * ♦ ♦ This
day in 1835 Southerners offered a $5,000 reward for the arrest of Garri-
son or anyone handling his Liberator. * * * In 1876 the British recap-
tured Boston. Bigger crowds were reported to be at cricket matches than
at baseball games.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:22
5:57

High water:

11:25 A.M.
11:50 P.M.

THURSDAY. Beginning of Jewish New Year: Rosh Hashonah. * * *
John Harvard died this day in 1638, leaving 400 books, 769 pounds, 17
shillings and tuppence, all for the "colledge at Newetowne." ♦ ♦ * Wil-
mot's All-Wool Diagonal Overcoats were only $5. apiece this day in 1883.

Sun rises:

sets:

5:23
5:55

High water:

12:14 P.M.

FRIDAY. In 1798 you could, if it suited your fancy, have bought
Jamaica Plain water from Solomon Monroe, "doing business near the fish
market," for 30^ a hogshead, 8^ a barrel, and 1^ a pailful. * * * On
this day in 1815 occurred "The Great Gale." Shipping along the Coast
was ruined; salt spray and sea birds driven twenty miles inland.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:24
5:54

High water:

12:41 A.M.
1:04 P.M.

SATURDAY. Boston, it was disclosed this day in 1858, was the head-
quarters for the best hair and whisker dye in the country. * ♦ * Dr. L.
Vernon Briggs, psychiatrist and authority on colonial history, went and
did it on this day in 1935, when he said that the ancestors of some of
Boston's best families came to this country as indentured servants.

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That pedigree tracing and family
pride are no new phenomenon in Boston
life may be judged by the fact that in
1850 one Mr. Levis, driven to distrac-
tion by this genealogical snobbery, had
himself painted a large picture of Noah
boarding the Ark, carrying a big bundle
plainly labeled "Papers belonging to
the Levis family."

SEPTEMBER

Station Agent
Who has not parted from an afl&nity
At the Boston and Albany's Trinity?
And who has not hoped that she's back to stay,
At New York, New Haven and Hartford's
Back Bay?

R. S.

Sun rises: 5:25 High water: 1:33 A.M.

sets: 5:52 1:55 P.M.

SUNDAY. Constitution Day. ♦ * * Anniversary of Founding of Bos-
ton, * * * Gedeliah (Jewish), ♦ ♦ ♦ Gala doings here in 1830 to cele-
brate success of French revolution. * * * 300 disgusted emigrants left
for the old country on one boat alone this day in 1856. * * * British
merchantman, Warrior, came into port this day in 1896 with tales of
horrible brutality. Master, mates and steward accused of all manner
of cruelties, including training a giant wolf-hound to attack the sailors.

Sun rises: 5:26 High water: 2:26 A.M.

sets: 5:50 2:47 P.M.

MONDAY. A "select group of fifty" saw the Boston dog, "Smut," kill
"Pete," a New Yorker, in a battle here on this day in 1884. "Smut"
weighed 24 pounds, "Pete," 25. * * * Results of state survey made pub-
lic this day in 1909 showed great growth in use of motor vehicles. 40%
of all vehicles on the highways of Massachusetts were motor driven, the
best horse drawn.

Sun rises: 5:27 High water: 3:21 A.M.

sets: 5:48 3:42 P.M.

TUESDAY. A party of Pilgrims anchored off Thompson's Island in
Boston Harbor on this day in 1621. They looked all around but couldn't
find anybody. There wasn't anybody there. * * * On this day in 1692
all Boston learned that the life of Giles Cory had been slowly pressed
from his body. For contumacy. * * ♦ One Benjamin Yerxa of Frederick-
ton, New Brunwick, was in town this day in 1857 on a "toot." He lost
$1500 before he got through tooting.

Sun rises: 5:28 High water: 4:18 A.M.

sets: 5:46 4:40 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. USS Constitution refused to be launched this day in
1797, thereby disappointing a great crowd which had gathered at Noddle's
Island. * * * This day in 1859 was one to warm the heart of the chilliest
Puritan. A Cambridge man was charged with fraud in selling his load
of hay. It contained 800 pounds of hay and 441 pounds of mud. The
guy was an ex-dancing master. ♦ * * "The Fortune Hunter," starring
John Barrymore, was the big attraction at the Tremont Theatre in 1910.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:29
5:45

High water:

5:19 A.M.
5:41 P.M.

THURSDAY. A Boston lady received this day in 1827 a letter from an
eminent Bostonian visiting in the South. It was hot down there, he re-
ported, and apologized for writing to her in his shirt sleeves. * * * 40
square-riggers in port, this day in 1828. * ♦ ♦ This day in 1938 oc-
curred "The Big Wind" in Boston. A 100-mile-an-hour hurricane killed
682 in New England, uprooted thousands of trees, blew over church
steeples, played many weird pranks and caused damages estimated in the
millions.

Sun

sets:

5:30
5:43

High water;

6:21 A.M.
6:41 P.M.

FRIDAY. In 1740 a huge crowd had gathered in the Old South Church
on this day to hear the famous Evangelist, George Whitefield. Suddenly
it was believed that the timbers of the building were giving way, and
in the rush to escape "several were trod to death, three died almost
presently and others were grievously wounded." ♦ * ♦ Dr. Oliver Wen-
dell Holmes chortled softly on this day in 1855 when Ralph Waldo Emer-
son delivered an address before the Women's Rights Convention.

Sun

sets:

5:31
5:41

High water:

7:19 A.M.
7:38 P.M.

SATURDAY. Yom Kippur (Jewish). • * * They were still trying to
launch the Constitution in 1797. * * * Mayor Sleeper of Roxbury was
gathering his third crop of pears from this same tree on this day in 1858.
* * * Anna Held exposed her shoulders on this day in 1896 to the blushes
of the entire city of Boston. ♦ * * You can set your clocks back to-
night and recover that hour lost in April.

There was a three day "Railroad Jubi-
lee" in town in September, 1851, to
celebrate the facts that the State had
spent $54,000,000 on its railroad build-
ing program and that Boston was
"united by rail and steam navigation
with 13 states, the two Canadas and the
lakes." President Fillmore and his cabi-
net were here; so was Lord Elgin, Gov.
General of Canada, and his suite. In-
numerable parades, speeches and re-
ceptions culminated in a grand feast on '^^l

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SEPTEMBER

Writing anonymous letters was no sport
for the faint-hearted in colonial days. If con-
victed, one was faced with this pleasant pros-
pect: "He shall sit on the Gallows for . . .
one Hour with a Rope about his neck, after-
wards sit upon a Pillory and have one of his
Ears cut off, then 3 years Imprisonment at
Hard Labor. Every 3 months he shall be
brought out and have 20 stripes upon the
Naked Back."

^^ ^Xm Sunrises: 5:32 High water: 8:11A.M.

imJrlk sets: 5:39 8:29 P.M.

SUNDAY. The Oregon Colonization Society, seeking settlers for the
West, opened an office in Charlestown Hall on this day in 1830. * * ♦
Eben Wight of 45 Milk Street received this day in 1835 a shipment of
12,000 European leeches. * ♦ * Point to remember: Boston Harbor
covers an area of 47 sq. miles, exclusive of the islands. It includes all
the tidewater within a line from Point Allerton to Point Shirley, which
is really quite a lot of tidewater.

^ ^^ Sun rises: 5:33 High water: 8:57 A.M.

LJLkJ sets: 5:38 9:15 P.M.

MONDAY. Exhibition of Japanese Screens at Boston Museum of Fine
Arts until Nov. 25th. * * * The first attempt to establish a newspaper
in America was made in Boston on this day in 1690, when Benjamin
Harris issued the only edition of Publick Occurrences, both Forreign and
Domestick," Within twenty-four hours the paper was suppressed by the
authorities. * ♦ * On this day in 1834 cholera broke out in the South
Boston House of Correction, claiming forty victims.

^ L^ Sun rises: 5:34 High water: 9:38 A.M.

^LUKJ sets: 5:36 9:56 P.M.

TUESDAY. The Boston Academy of Music announced its opening for
the fall term on this day in 1833. Tuition was $5 a semester. * * * In
1884, $34 a month would procure for you at the new Hotel Fellner, 595
Dudley Street, "Elegant five-room suites, steam heat, all improvements,
with free passes on the railroads."

^ " X Sun rises: 5:35 High water: 10:16 A.M.

•^ ifc sets: 5:35 10:34 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Boston Globe Cooking School at Mechanics Building
today, tomorrow and Friday. * * ♦ A great funeral was given on this
day in 1909 to Major Nutt, beloved Dorchester midget. He was 3' 10^^"
tall, weighed 111 pounds, and was 67 years old at his death. His three
children were of normal size, and his wife was 6' tall. * ♦ * A year
later a revolution, with T. R. as dictator, was predicted by the President
of the Diamond Match Company.

^y^ Sunrises: 5:36 High water: 10:52 A.M.

^JtVJ sets: 5:33 11:11 P.M.

THURSDAY. Tabernacles (Jewish). * * * John Wilkes Booth at the
Old Howard on this day in 1853. * ♦ ♦ A company was formed on this
day in 1853 to telegraph packages between Boston and New York. Pneu-
matic tubes were to be used, and it was estimated that the running time
would be about 15 minutes. ♦ ♦ * Ho-hum, The Police Gazette and
"similar" publications were banned by Boston newsdealers on this day
in 1883.

^?Cf Sunrises: 5:37 High water: 11:28 A.M.

MmMKy sets: 5:31 11:48 P.M.

FRIDAY. The first Catholic Cathedral in Boston dedicated on this day
in 1803, at the corner of Franklin and Devonshire Streets. ♦ ♦ ♦ The
finest and most costly collection of painting ever assembled in America
(up to that time) on exhibition at the Athenaeum on this day in 1834.
* * * William H. Vanderbilt was in town on this day in 1787, and State
Street was on its best behavior. ♦ ♦ * "The best old age pension," said
General Booth on this day in 1907, "is a family of good children, reared
nobly."

Goebbels is better off than Fell
He knows why — and knows full well.

H. E. W.

High water:

■^1 I Sun rises: 5:38

^JKiJ sets: 5:29 12:04 P.M.

SATURDAY. Michaelmas. Lots of furniture will be moved around town
today. ♦ * * The owners of omnibuses were complaining in 1852 that
Dover Street hoodlums were accustomed at night to heave eggs at the
bus drivers. ♦ ♦ ♦ On this day in 1858 one Harris was reported wanted
for "loving, looting, leaving, sundry women." * ♦ * A magnificent new
passenger coach on the Boston and Worcester railway was on view in
Boston on this day in 1883. It had three ten-passenger compartments.

Opportunity was really thumping on
the doors of ambitious young men on
Nov. 9, 1630 when the General Court
ordered that every Englishman who
kills a wolf "Shall have one penny for
every beast and horse, and one farthing
for every weaned swine and goat in
every plantation" and, further, that
"Whoever will first give in his name to
the Governor that he will undertake to
set up a ferry between Boston and
Charlestown, and begin the same . . .
shall have one penny for every person,
and one penny for every hundred
pounds weight of goods he shall so
transport,"

OCTOBER

Resolved
Take back your brown October Ale,
September's benders left me pale,
I may be sad, but I'll be sober
Through every hour of October.

ISiin rises: 5:40 High water: 12:26 A.M.

sets: 5:28 12:41 P.M.

SUNDAY. Out of New Bedford on this day in 1857 sailed a whaling ves-
sel which numbered among its crew a George Washington, a John Adams
and a Thomas Jeflferson. The fo'c'stle was immediately christened the
White House. * * * Point to remember: There are thirty-six islands in
Boston Harbor of which Long Island, with an area of 216 acres, is the
largest.

Sun rises: 5:41 High water: 1:05 A.M.

sets: 5:26 1:21 P.M.

MONDAY. 302nd Annual Fall Field Day, A and H Artillery Company.
* * * N. E. A. A. and Irish American Boxing Matches, Monday evenings
through May 1 at the Arena. * * * At a Boston lecture held this day in
1698, Cotton Mather was his usual gay self: "I suppose that many more
than a thousand houses are to be seen on this little piece of ground, all
filled with the undeserved favors of God." * ♦ ♦ Sam Adams died at
the age of 81 in 1803.

Sun rises: 5:42 High water: 1:50 A.M.

sets: 5:24 2:04 P.M.

TUESDAY. The Herald departed from its grim preoccupation with
world affairs this day in 1857 to abet a local orgy, announcing: " 'Bonnie
Scots!' By request the proprietor of the Blue Bonnet Saloon, 6 Odeon
Avenue, will serve up a Scotch haggis this evening at 9 o'clock." * * *
The great international peace congress met in 1904 at Tremont Temple to
"settle" the Russo-Japanese War.

Sun rises: 5:43 High water: 2:37 A.M.

sets: 5:22 2:52 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. * * * Wrestling Matches
tonight at the Arena. * * * Boston University ladies fumed this day in
1897 when for the first time in the institution's history, masculine eyes
gloated on the initiation ceremonies of Gamma Delta Sorority. * * *
This day in 1929, the Federal Government abandoned Ft. Strong, last
fortified island in Boston Harbor.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:44
5:21

High water:

3:30 A.M.
3:46 P.M.

THURSDAY. SKmini Azereth (Jewish). * * * On this day in 1832
the Traveller forecasted trouble "unless the ruling class controlling poli-
tics expands vision and stops impeding reform and progress." ♦ * *
A local druggist was the talk of the town in 1895 with his display window
full of nursing bottles and the slogan : "Give the little suckers a chance."

Sun rises:
sets:

5:45
5:19

High water:

4:26 A.M.
4:44 P.M.

FRIDAY. Rejoicing in the Law (Jewish), * * * In 1857 the Boston
ship Pam Flush hung up a record, having flashed from New York to
Callao, Peru, in 78 days. * * * The Post beat the town this day in
1895 when it reported that Socialists were gradually permeating the trade
imion movement.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:46
5:18

High water:

5:29 A.M.
5:47 P.M.

SATURDAY. The Constitution was still refusing to go near the water
in 1797. * * * In 1873, an attempt to annex Brookline was foiled on
this day. ♦ ♦ ♦ This day in 1931 approximately 3,000 longshoremen
went on strike, tying up the Port of Boston; three years later to a day,
3,000 fishermen followed suit.

On Oct. 2, 1639 Mr. Winthrop re-
corded, "Mr. Hopkins, the Governor of
Hartford upon Connecticut, came to
Boston and brought his wife with him
(a Godly young woman and of special
parts) who had fallen into a sad in-
firmity, the loss of her understanding
and reason, which had been growing
upon her divers years, by occasion of
her giving herself wholly to reading
and writing, and had written many
books. For if she had attended her
household affairs, and such things as
belong to women, and not gone out of
her way and calling to meddle in such
things as are proper for men, whose
minds are stronger, etc. she had kept
her wits, and might have improved
them usefully in the plan God had set
her."

OCTOBER

Boston "Society"
Abhors notoriety —
That's just one variety
Of Boston society.

M. E. H.

Sun rises: 5:47 High water: 6:29 A.M.

sets: 5:16 6:50 P.M.

SUNDAY. In 1662 the town ordered one Robert Nash, butcher, "to re-
move the Stinking garbage out of his yard, nere the street, and provide
some other remote place for slaughter of Beasts, that such loathsome
smells might be avoyded." * * * On this day in 1793 died the first
Federal Governor of the Commonwealth, Gen. John Hancock, at the
age of fifty-six.

Sun rises: 5:48 High water: 7:30 A.M.

sets: 5:14 7:52 P.M.

MONDAY. In 1783 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court tried a
white man for "assaulting, beating and imprisoning a black." The pas-
sage of the State Bill of Rights in 1780 with the clause "All men are
born free and equal" led the court to find the defendant guilty and
fine him forty shillings. This was a mortal wound to slavery in Massa-
chusetts. * ♦ * This day in 1895, members of the CCC (Consolidated
Cycling Clubs, friend) convened at the James Street Assembly Rooms of
Boston College.

Sun rises: 5:49 High water: 8:26 A.M.

sets: 5:12 8:51 P.M.

TUESDAY. Progress of medicine in 1720, according to an item in the
Boston Gazette for this day: "Doctor Sharp of London, being arrived at
Boston . . . gives notice that he is to be advised with ... by those
troubled with Cancered Breasts, other Cancerous or Scrophulous Tumours
... the King's Evil, Leprosie, Scurvy, Rheumatism or Stinking Rotten
Ulcers." * * * On this day in 1857 Boston's noted sporting man, Thomas
Mead, shot and killed Jerry Agin in the old Howard House, claiming self-
defense.

Sun rises: 5:51 High water: 9:21 A.M.

sets: 5:11 9:46 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Jefferson Davis was in town in 1858. * * • The Post
on this date in 1870 remarked with dark ambiguity: "The swinish man-
ners of an individual in this city are attributed to his eating so many
pig's feet." •

Sun rises: 5:52
sets: 5:09

High water:

10:13 A.M.
10:42 P.M.

THURSDAY. Columbus Day, a legal holiday in Mass. since 1910,

* * * 60th Annual Convention of Order of Scottish Clans of Mass.

* * * In 1797, the Constitution was still stubbornly clinging to terra
firma. * * * In 1885 it was found that the wealthy were enjoying
an average life span of 52 years, "well-to-do" 46 years, and the poor not
more than 41 years. * ♦ * The Red Sox won the World Series for the
last time on this day in 1916. Twenty -three years ago. Oh, well.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:53
5:07

High water: 11:02 A.M.
11:31 P.M.

FRIDAY. It is considered very bad luck, indeed, to have a safe fall on
one's head on this day. * * ♦ This day in 1675 the General Court de-
creed that those who "sinfully play away their armes at dice or cards"
should be kept "as scavingers" until the weapons were replaced.

Sun rises:
sets:

5:54
5:06

High water: 11:51 A.M.

SATURDAY. The General Court on this day in 1656 authorized the
"president and fellowes of Harvard College" to punish by fines or public
whipping all "misdemeanors of the youth in theire society." * * * This
day in 1885, the South Boston Iron Works prepared to cast "the largest
gun ever made in this country" — 104 tons of metal used, although almost
half the weight was lost in casting.

Any lingering doubts you may have
as to the intestinal fortitude of Bosto-
nians of Revolutionary days should be
dispelled when we tell you about the
banquet on Oct. 3, 1783. The occasion:
the arrival of the French fleet under
DeGrasse. The scene : Faneuil Hall. The
menu: terrific! After the dinner seven-
teen toasts were drunk at intervals of
five minutes, each sentiment being ac-
companied by the boom of a cannon.
The newspapers later informed the few
citizens who were not at the festivities
that "notwithstanding the largeness of
the Company, the most perfect order
and decorum was preserved throughout
the whole."

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OCTOBER

Waldo" s Love
The sea returning day by day

Restores the world-wide mart;
So let each dweller on the Bay
Fold Boston in his heart . . .

Emerson

I ^^ Sun rises: 5:55 High water: 12:23 A.M.

A ^J sets: 5:04 12:40 P.M.

SUNDAY. This day in 1638 witnessed an unprecedented tempest of wind
and snow, resulting in many deaths, shipwrecks and widespread damage.
Since it followed the day of a general fast, worried patriarchs concluded
that the Lord remained unconvinced by their acts of piety.

Sun rises: 5:56 High water: 1:13 A.M.

sets: 5:03 1:30 P.M.

MONDAY. Weather: Bright and blue. * * * This day m 1824,
Nichols and Brown begged leave to announce that they had just received
the Lafayette Stripe, new and beautiful for pantaloons, of a cassimere
fabric — color of a genteel drab with a delicate white silk stripe. * * *
In 1826 the first gas pipes were being laid in Boston streets. * * * On
this day in 1846 was performed the first public operation utilizing ether,
at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

1g Sun rises: 5:57 High water: 2:03 A.M.

* sets: 5:01 2:19 P.M.

TUESDAY. In 1860 the Prince of Wales was being given a big recep-
tion including a military review on the Common. * * * Bostonians
thronged Litchenfield's wharf this day in 1870 to gape at a whale 60
feet long, with a circumference of 36 feet and a mouth capacity of 12
feet. ♦ ♦ ♦ 1925 saw the opening of that super-movie palace^ "The
Metropolitan," with 30,000 attending the first performance.

After you saw the Metropolitan you didnH like the Bijou

— Or Dijou?
R. S.

I V^ Sun rises: 5:58 High water: 2:56 A.M.

* ^i^ sets: 5:00 3:11 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Feast of St. Luke. * * * Gallantry was still the pass-
word in 1847, when the Boston Cultivator carried this Fireman's Toast:
"The Ladies — Their eyes kindle the only flames which we cannot extin-
guish, and against which there is no insurance." ♦ * * The season
evoked this doleful couplet from the Post's Observant Citizen in 1900:
"The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year
A trifle soon for whiskey straight, a trifle late for beer."

Sun rises:
sets:

5:59
4:58

High water:

3:50 A.M.
4:06 P.M.

THURSDAY. John Adams born this day in 1735. * * * In 1857, a
reader of the Herald complained that Democratic candidates for office
were using an Irish brogue in campaigning, but, once elected, ignored the
Irish newcomers in "distributing the loaves and fishes." This unfair dis-
crimination, we are happy to say, has now been done away with. ♦ ♦ *
In 1928 half of Boston was piling into the newly-electrified Narrow Gauge
Railroad, just for the ride.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:01
4:57

High water:

4:46 A.M.
5:04 P.M.

FRIDAY. Annual Meeting and Industrial Conference sponsored by the
Associated Industries of Massachusetts; at the Copley-Plaza Hotel. ♦ ♦ ♦
William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson, Quakers, were hanged this
day in 1659 on Boston Common. * * * In 1736 there were many flourish-
ing taverns in and near the town. Among the more picturesquely named
were: The Turk's Head, The Punch Bowl, The Blue Boar, The Hoop
Petticoat, The Royal Exchange, The Blue Dog and Rainbow, The Red
Lion, and The Sun.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:02
4:55

High water:

5:42 A.M.
6:02 P.M.

SATURDAY. At Last! Launched from Hart's Wharf this day in 1797,
the Frigate Constitution. * * * This day in 1936, President Roosevelt
visited Boston on his campaign for reelection, addressing a gathering of
175,000 on the Charles St. Mall.

In August, 1723, more than sixty
chiefs of "Eight Nations" arrived in
Boston for a big pow-wow with the gov-
ernment. They were greeted with great
dignity but very snobbishly refused to
do any business with Lt. Gov. Dummer
until the arrival of Col. Schuyler. This
hauteur was engendered in part, no
doubt, by an endeavor to live up to the
polysyllabic richness of their names, a
few simple examples of which were:
Sogueuntals, Towadearbough, Tabca-
undelanglesal, Yeawhoughtetalo and
Auspeanought.

OCTOBER

The swans within the Public Garden
Never so much as beg the pardon
Of boats intent on duplicating
The swan's peculiar navigating.

Sun rises: 6:04 High water: 6:38 A.M.

sets: 4:54 6:57 P.M.

SUNDAY. Only 20 days to Martinmas. * * * This day marked the first
concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1881. * * * In 1900, milk
was selling for five cents a quart. * * * And James J. Corbett was at the
Old Howard, finding that his popularity had grown with defeat.

Sun rises: 6:05 High water: 7:30 A.M.

sets: 4:52 7:49 P.M.

MONDAY. On this day in 1800 Boston was made up of 25,000 persons
living in 2,376 houses scattered over 783 acres of land cut by 97 streets,
36 lanes, 26 alleys and 18 courts. There were 18 churches — 9 Congrega-
tional, 3 Episcopal, 2 Baptist and one each for the Methodist, Friends,
Universalists and Sandemanian. There were 7 schools with 900 pupils, of
which 160 were in the Latin School.

Sun rises: 6:06 High water: 8:16 A.M.

sets: 4:51 8:36 P.M.

TUESDAY. The city was alarmed by the outbreak of a cholera epidemic
in 1832. * * * In 1833, red silk stockings for the ladies were very cachet
de dingdong. Even the bluestockings were wearing 'em. * * * In 1853.
1400 Revolutionary pensioners were still alive.

Sun rises: 6:07 High water: 8:59 A.M.

sets: 4:49 9:20 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. St. Crispin's Day— A great day for shoemakers, * * *
Great festivity on Boston Common in 1848 to honor the introduction of
Cochituate water. Tots went to town on "My name is Water" amid bell
ringing and the reverberation of cannon.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:09
4:48

High water:

9:38 A.M.
10:02 P.M.

THURSDAY. This day in 1850 were arrested a number of slavers, caus-
ing general pleasure. ♦ * ♦ Point to remember: You have exactly one
chance in 153,000,000 of drawing a thirteen-card-suit in Bridge. If it
should happen, dorCt bid in no trumps.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:10
4:46

High water:

10:17 A.M.
10:42 P.M.

FRIDAY. Weather: This will he a fine clear day, followed by darkness
along the entire Atlantic sea-coast. * * * Suburban pig-lifters in 1857
were using choloroform on the swine to prevent their squealing at an em-
barrassing moment. * * * Point to remember: In the year 1907, 21,000
towels were stolen from city bathhouses.

Sun rises: 6:11
sets: 4:45

High water:

10:55 A.M.
11:21 P.M.

SATURDAY. Annual Convention of Massachusetts State Industrial
Union Council today, tomorrow and the next day. If we knew where we'd
tell you. * * * On this day in 1636 the General Court gave 400 pounds
for the founding of "a schoole or colledge" which was "ordered to bee at
Newtowne." ♦ * * Two hundred and sixty-four years later. President
Eliot of Harvard told the Massachusetts Schoolmasters' Club: "I believe
the most menacing peril of the public school today is the School Com-
mittee."

Five Boston men made the front
pages of the Post on Oct. 9, 1900, when
they volunteered to take unto them-
selves five Seminole Indian brides. The
whole scheme had developed from the
belief of the Seminole chiefs that the
presence of more pale faces in the
tribe would ward off plagues. Each
squaw was to have a dowry of 200
acres of land and $500, thereby enhanc-
ing her charms immeasurably.

OCTOBER

R.LP,
Here lies the fiend in human form
Who didn't keep his tenants warm.
He's missing since the nights grew cool,
His tenants grin and sigh "Poor fuel!"

^?C| Sunrises: 6:12 High water: 11:33 A.M.

^J^^ sets: 4:44

SUNDAY. In 1727 an earthquake rocked local buildings. ♦ ♦ ♦ Twenty
Boston policemen were assigned to the funeral of Daniel Webster, at
Marshfield this day in 1852. ♦ ♦ * "Under Coolidge, the New England
deacon," said Norman Thomas, arriving in Boston in 1932, "strip poker
was a pious Sunday School game for children compared to the Wall
Street speculation."

^2|| Sun rises: 6:13 High water: 12:01 A.M.

\^\J sets: 4:42 12:13 P.M.

MONDAY. The city was thrilled in 1837 by visiting delegates of four
Indian tribes. Encamped on the Common, they performed war dances
while clad in the skins of wild beasts, attracting 70,000 spectators. ♦ * *
Charged with drunkenness and working on the Lord's Day was an East
Boston man who, in 1932, painted a bakery shop sign while standing on a
10-foot ladder with one leg wound about his neck.

i^ I Sun rises: 6:15 High water: 12:44 A.M.

\J A sets: 4:41 12:56 P.M.

TUESDAY. This is Hallowe'en and there will be many festive gatherings
around and about the city. * * * On this day in 1768, despite protests
from prominent Boston women, Richard Ames, a military deserter, was
shot on Boston Common and buried where he fell. ♦ * * That haunting
headline reappeared again this day in 1931, this time in the Post:
"Hoover sees Good Times Looming Up."

Guess Who?
A former Mayor of yours and mine.
Is wont to sing "Sweet Adeline."

— H. E. W.

NOVEMBER

ISun rises: 6:16 High water: 1:31 A.M.

sets: 4:39 1:41 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. All Saints' Day. * * ♦ Mr. Samuel Sewall noted on
this day in 1708, that "the Governor called and smoked a pipe with my
wife at night." That's the sort of thing we'd like to see discouraged.
* * * This day in 1790 a balloon ascended in front of the Green Dragon
Tavern on Union Street, to the satisfaction of all concerned, who were
high. * * * On this day in 1849 the Eye and Ear Infirmary was com-
pleted on Charles Street.

Sun rises:

6:17
4:38

High water:

2:18 A.M.
2:31 P.M.

THURSDAY. All Souls' Day. * * * On this day in 1726 was executed
a pirate rejoicing in the singular name John Baptiste. * * * In 1917 Dr.
Karl Muck played the Star Spangled Banner before resigning as conduc-
tor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Those among the audience who
were not deranged by wartime sentiments, rose to their feet and cheered.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:18
4:37

High water:

3:12 A.M.
3:26 P.M.

FRIDAY. International Pageant and Ball of International Institute of
Boston. ♦ ♦ ♦ "Wit to be pleasing," said John Qunicy Adams to himself
on this day in 1787, "must, I think, be unexpected, like the lightning
which flashes in our eyes." Or Boston's weather, John. Or twins, even.
* * * When they finishing counting this day in 1936, Roosevelt had
199,504, Landon, 85,789 and Lemke 25,924.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:19
4:36

High water:

4:08 A.M.
4:26 P.M.

SATURDAY. Upward and onward with the arts: On this day in 1928,
popular vote decreed that hereafter professional sports were permissible
on Sunday. Now how about getting a loaf of bread without rapping twice?
* * * In 1901 prohibitionists were quietly fainting away at the adver-
tisement :

120 years old

Mr. Abraham E. Elmer, of 54 Spring St.

Oldest Man in the world

Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey

Has prolonged His Life.

On Nov. 12, 1685, the clergy were up
in arms, demanding that the General
Court take care of "a Dancing Master
who seeks to set up here and hath Mixt
Dances." This foolhardy gent had the
nerve to attempt to hold his "Meetings"
on Lecture Day and was reported to
have said that "by one Play he could
teach more Divinity than Mr. Willard
or the Old Testament." The Rev. Mr.
Moody allowed as how it was not a
time for New England to dance, but
Mr. Mather got right to the root of
things with a denunciation of "Mixt
Dance" in general.

NOVEMBER

Over the river and through the woods
To Grandmother's House — but, you sinner,
My grandmother's running a roadhouse now
With a marvellous dollar dinner!

Sun rises: 6:21 High water: 5:08 A.M.

sets: 4:34 5:28 P.M.

SUNDAY. This day in 1632 it was decided to fine tobacco chewers one
penny if caught. This must have made the boys wipe off their chins more
often, anyhow. * * * The world of the occult suffered a blow on this
day in 1888 when Margaret Fox Kane, inventress of spiritism, gave the
whole thing away at the Music Hall. "I was the first fraudulent spiritual-
ist," said Mrs. Kane, "It is a humbug from beginning to end."

Sun rises: 6:22 High water: 6:09 A.M.

sets: 4:33 6:32 P.M.

MONDAY. During the winter of 1843, sailors were so scarce in Bos-
ton that it was frequently necessary for ship masters to send recruiting
ofl&cers down Cape Cod to hire hands. * * * In 1850 — Boston brag-
ging about Boston again: "Since the century began, 74 churches have
been built. The town has grown from a population of 23,000 to 140,000.
15,000 vessels enter the Port annually."

i Sun rises: 6:23 High water: 7:09 A.M.

JL sets: 4:32 7:34 P.M.

TUESDAY. This day in 1632 it was "ordered that the neck of land
betwixt Powder Home Hill and Pullen Poynte shall belong to Boston."
* * * In 1795 on this day a fifty-dollar reward was being offered for
the return of a bag containing "about one hundred pounds of Human
Hair." That should have fetched it.

Sun rises: 6:24 High water: 8:06 A.M.

sets: 4:31 8:35 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Pigeons darkened the air over Boston on this day in
1630, blotting out the sun and causing the superstitious "to rend the air
with groanes and most grave lamentations." ♦ * ♦ Decreed in the year
1785; that "Football Not to be Played At, or Kicked through any Part
of the Town," under penalty of 1 shilling per transgression.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:25
4:30

High water:

9:01 A.M.
9:31 P.M.

THURSDAY. Weather: Rain, turning to snow, turning to slush. This is
not a good day. ♦ ♦ * This was a Monday in 1795 and all over town
were handbills advertising a scheduled performance "of that much ad-
mired comedy written by Shakespeare, *The School for Scandal.' " * * *
Died this day in 1893, historian Francis Parkman.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:27
4:29

High water: 9:53 A.M.
10:24 P.M.

FRIDAY. Horticultural Hall, Autumn Flower Show begins today and
ends Sunday. * * ♦ Arrived from Nova Scotia this day in 1755, 200
banished Scotchmen sans bagpipes. * ♦ ♦ Horseless vehicles had their
first outdoor exhibition of magnitude on this day in 1898, three types of
electric, gasoline and steam motors being put through their paces before
an audience of thousands.

Sun rises: 6:28
sets: 4:28

High water:

10:42 A.M.
11:15 P.M.

SATURDAY. Martinmas. * * * Armistice Day. ♦ * ♦ Indoor Polo to-
night at the Armory and every Saturday night until April. * * * This
day in 1871, the Reverend Henry Morgan lectured at the Music Hall on
"Humbug, Ghosts, Hobgoblins, Fortune Tellers, Spirit Tappers, Quack
Doctors, Barnum and the Devil." With an organ concert at 7 o'clock for
early comers.

On Nov. 22, 1800, the Boston Select-
men not only recommended "but
earnestly requested" that "every driver
... be careful to direct his carriage to
the side of the street which may be on
his right hand; by which method the
frequent embarrassments occasioned by
carriages meeting on the same side of
the street will be avoided." For our part,
we would like to say that we consider
this a very sensible suggestion and one
which, if followed, would go a long
way towards solving the city's present
traffic problem.

NOVEMBER

There was an old lady from Roxbury
Her sister lived way over in Charlestown.
Time and time again the old lady said to

herself,
"I must go and visit my sister, indeed I must."
What with one thing or another,
She never got round to it.

H. E. W.

Sun rises: 6:29 High water: 11:30 A.M.

sets: 4:27

SUNDAY. Automobile Show opens tonight at Mechanics Building.
* * * This day in 1722 the Boston Gazette fumed: "The gentlemen who
went as Commissioners (with the Mohawks) to treat with the Eastern
Indians are returned from Thence, without meeting them, those Guilty
Wretches having retired we know not where." ♦ ♦ ♦ This day in 1933 a
Beacon Hill necktie weaver celebrated her first wholesale commission
by doing a fan dance with an electric fan.

Sun rises: 6:30 High water: 12:03 A.M.

sets: 4:26 12:17 P.M.

MONDAY. Automobile Show today too, and until the 19th, as a matter
of fact. * * * On this day in 1644 the General Court in a sudden and
unprecedented burst of generosity decided "it was not fit to deprive ye
Indians of lawfuU comfort," and made it legal for all those who "had
license to retaile wines, to sell also to ye Indians so much as may be
fit for their needfull use or refreshment." * * * In 1711 Boston turned
out for an exhibition of Indian scalps taken in war, causing much gentle
delight and astonishment among the Ladies.

Sun rises: 6:31 High water: 12;52 A.M.

sets: 4:25 1:04 P.M.

TUESDAY. Item from the Gazette for this day in 1720: "A Fine Blew
Stocking being missing some time, supposed to be taken by mistake, out
of a Lady's Lodging in Boston, and being of no use to any but the owner,
the Person that took it is desired to return the same or a pair of another
colour to prevent further TROUBLE." ♦ ♦ ♦ A shower of meteors pre-
dicted in 1878, but not seen.

I 1^ Sun rises: 6:33 High water: 1:40 A.M.

JL V^ sets: 4:24 1:52 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Salmon season ends, which is a nice thing for the salmon
and for those families cursed with an angling member. * ♦ * Round
about now comes the Boston Book Fair at the Boston Public Library.
* * * This day in 1936 King's Chapel celebrated the 250th anniversary
of its founding. How old will it be this year?

100

Sun

sets:

6:34
4:23

High water:

2:28 A.M.
2:40 P.M.

THURSDAY. This day in 1898, the St. James Young Men's Catholic
Total Abstinence Society announced that "it will open a bottle of clear,
sparkling, wholesome fun for amusement at the Bijou Opera House to-
night." * * * In 1914 Boston's Federal Reserve Bank opened.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:35
4:22

High water:

3:17 A.M.
3:29 P.M.

FRIDAY. In 1789 the Beacon on you-know-what hill was blown down. It
had been erected to warn the country in case of attacks by Indians, at
which time a barrel of tar placed at the apex was to be set ablaze. ♦ * ♦
Ho-hum. Special flash to the press this day in 1901, "Indications were
that a reduction in the wages of cotton mills operatives will become gen-
eral throughout New England."

On the cobble stones of Beacon Hill
Many have slipped — and many will,

F. M.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:36
4:21

High water:

4:08 A.M.
4:22 P.M.

SATURDAY. Last day for the Auto Show. * * * Sheep milled
through Boston's streets this night in 1898 when a flock being driven across
the city stampeded and eluded capture. Ten o'clock and all's wool f ♦ ♦ ♦
Earthquake shocks in 1929 stopped pendulum clocks in the State House.

On November 9th and 10th, 1872, oc-
curred the worst of Boston's many bad
fires. Fourteen persons were killed,
sixty-five acres were burned over caus-
ing $80,000,000 worth of damage. Most
colorful of the many stories told of the
fire is that on President Adams of the
Five Cent Savings Bank, who, when
told that the Bank Building on School
Street would have to be blown up to
save the city, took books, securities, and
cash totalling $11,000,000 to his home
on Charles Street and sat up all night
in the hall with a shot gun trained on
the front door.

101

NOVEMBER

This Means You!
It doesn't pay to be contrary
About the murals in our library
They're the nuts
And no "buts."

R. S.

Sun rises: 6:38 High water: 5:00 A.M.

sets: 4:20 5:16 P.M.

SUNDAY. This is a good day to sit near a radiator and study the charts
of yesterday's football games. * * ♦ Forced from her anchors in a
storm and wrecked while lying in Boston Harbor was a 400-ton ship,
The Charles, on this day in 1641. Against admonitions, the owners had
unrigged their ship on the Lord's Day to be new-masted. Puritans cackled.

Sun rises: 6:39 High water: 5:52 A.M.

sets: 4:20 6:11 P.M.

MONDAY. Maude Celeste danced this night at the Tremont Theatre
in 1827. The iniquitous "dens of deviltry and lewd gestures" were at
last coming into their own, it seems, for on the same night Clara Fisher
was playing at the Federal Theatre, this last having no relation to present-
day undertaking of similar title.

Sun rises: 6:41 High water: 6:42 A.M.

sets: 4:19 7:04 P.M.

TUESDAY. Hockey season's here again. * * * Crime reared its head
on this day in 1632 when Governor Winthrop received news of the first
attempt at piracy on these coasts, committed by one Dixy Bull. Dixy was
subsequently sent to face the music in England. * * * This month in
1780 was incorporated the Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sun rises: 6:42 High water: 7:30 A.M.

sets: 4:18 7:54 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Smallpox raged through town and country in 1698,
causing grave concern as to the continuance of the colony. * ♦ * On this
night in 1907 Boston learned with dismay that it was outside the Ameri-
can Pale. Said Ambassador Bryce, speaking before the local Mayflower
Society: "One can hear all languages on the streets of Boston, and it
seems the American language has a foreign accent."

102

Sun

sets:

6:43
4:17

High water:

8:16 A.M.
8:41 P.M.

THURSDAY. This day in 1780 was exposed the traitor, Benedict Arnold,
the affair creating a great sensation in the town. * * ♦ The eminent
actress Maud Adams announced of her own free will on this day in
1898, that for refined taste in livery and "similar appointments," Boston
was away ahead of any city she had ever visited.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:44
4:17

High water;

8:59 A.M.
9:27 P.M.

FRIDAY. This was Thanksgiving Day last year and probably will be
again for many now living. Which reminds us, the prudent householder
will today open negotiations with his favorite dealer for a really good
turkey to be delivered next week. ♦ * * About this time in 1874 a dis-
couragingly small number of Bostonians were getting ready for the
soon-to-be-held Annual Meeting of the Society for the Employment of
Bible Readers.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:45
4:16

High water: 9:43 A.M.
10:11 P.M.

SATURDAY. Health Note: At this time in 1874, poultices of raw clams
were being widely advocated as a treatment for diphtheria. * * * At
the first hint of cold weather in the year 1888, Talbot Udar Andrews
of the Back Bay appeared on the Common with a pet raccoon coiled about
his throat as a muffler.

On the off chance that it has been
overlooked, we offer for consideration
by the Registry of Motor Vehicles the
following pertinent suggestion, first
made by a reader in the columns of
the Boston Post on Nov. 21, 1898.
"Something must be done if rubber
tires come into more general use. Ve-
hicles thus equipped approach one so
silently that one must be provided with
eyes like a lobster to avoid danger.
Why not put bells on such carriages, as
is required on sleighs in winter? It
would do so much to lessen the danger,
and, besides, the sound of the jingling
bells on a hot summer morning would
bring memories of winter nights, a
smart stepper, and a rosy cheeked com-
panion."

103

NOVEMBER

November, you perpetuate

The first good meal the Pilgrims ate

By advocating gluttony

On turkey, duck or muttony.

Sun rises: 6:46 High water: 10:24 A.M.

sets: 4:16 10:54 P.M.

SUNDAY. This day in 1635, according to Winthrop, "There came
twelve men from Connecticut. They had been ten days upon the journey,
and had lost one of their company drowned in the ice by the way; and
had all been starved, but, by God's Providence, they lighted on an Indian
wigwam." Which sounds pretty ominous for that Indian.

Sun rises: 6:46 High water: 11:05 A.M.

sets: 4:15 11:38 P.M.

MONDAY. More impropriety: "Mis Hanbury is fined five shillings for
entertaining Frances Smith contrary to order," in 1655 of this date. ♦ * *
In 1690, "Mary, an Indian, James's Squaw, was frozen to death upon
the Neck near Roxbury gate on Thursday night, being fudled." * * *
The first Democratic Club founded in Boston in 1793, in the North End.

Sun rises: 6:48 High water: 11:48 A.M.

sets: 4:15

TUESDAY. "Ordered and agreed," this day in 1636, "that Robte Hard-
ing shall remove the little house in his yard, and take it away from
thence before the first of next third month." * * * In the early days
of the Colony, duffel cloth, originally produced at Duffel, near Antwerp,
was commonly used for clothing. This was also called "shag" and, by
some traders, "trucking cloth." Haw!

Sun rises: 6:49 High water: 12:24 A.M.

sets: 4:15 12:34 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. First marriage in New England was between Edward
Winslow, a widower, and Susanna White, a widow. This happened on
May 12, 1621. What this is doing under Nov. 29 amazes even us. * * *
Point to remember: A Boston vessel, the Franklin carried the American
flag to Japan in 1799. This was just 54 years before Commodore Perry's
much publicized visit.

104

Sun rises:
sets:

6:51
4:14

High water:

1:10 A.M.
1:23 P.M.

THURSDAY. St, Andrew's Day,

late for it, too.

Thanksgiving Day, And very

In 1635 it was ordered that "Mr. William Hutchin-

son, Mr. William Colborne and Mr. William Brenton shall sett pryces
upon all cattell, commodities, victuals and laborer's and workmen's wages,
and no other pryces or rates shall be given or taken." Rome and Berlin
papers please copy.

DECEMBER

Sun rises:
sets:

6:52
4:14

High water: 2:01 A.M.
2:15 P.M.

FRIDAY. Convention of the American Ass'n of Textile Chemists and
Colorists today and tomorrow, * * * Distinguished visitor in town in
1874: The King of the Sandwich Isles. * * * Today in 1918 the Ele-
vated fare went up to eight cents. ♦ ♦ ♦ The evanescent Boston cop
Oliver Garrett suddenly appeared in the flesh at the Charles Street Jail this
day in 1930, and thus ending a long, but not very hard, search.

Sun rises: 6:53
sets: 4:14

High water:

2:54 A.M.
3:10 P.M.

SATURDAY. "A Beautiful African Lion" on display for 25^ on Brattle
Street in 1801. ♦ ♦ ♦ Charles Dickens began his readings in Tremont
Temple this day in 1867. * ♦ ♦ Even in 1874 Boston was famous for
its piety. Said the Detroit Free Press: "Boston is the place to look for
instances of filial devotion. A dutiful son in that town had the hacks
engaged for his mother's funeral 18 days before she expired."

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On the night of Nov. 16, 1747, Com-
modore Knowles, commanding the
British fleet lying in the harbor, sent
ashore a "press gang" which carried oflf
several working men as well as every
seaman it could find. The following
night a furious mob marched on the
Governor's house, bent on capturing
some of the British officers. No officers
were to be found, however, so the crowd
spent its force on capturing and burn-
ing a barge which, as an anticlimax,
turned out not to be the property of the
English navy.

105

DECEMBER

Massachusetts was the first colony to recog-
nize the importance of vital statistics. As
early as 1639 the registration of births, deaths
and marriages was required.

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Sun rises: 6:54 High water: 3:50 A.M.

sets: 4:14 4:08 P.M.

SUNDAY. First Sunday of Advent. * * * Smallpox scare at Harvard
in 1901. * * ♦ Fashion note, 1920: "The circular skirt (aren't they
all ? ) is the rage. Long pleated capes will be worn in the Spring."

Sun rises: 6:55 High water: 4:48 A.M.

sets: 4:14 5:10 P.M.

MONDAY. This day in 1923, after a 20-year absence, Eleanora Duse
appeared on a Boston stage, breaking all existing box office records.
* * * In 1933, the Good Government Association, sometimes known
as the "Goo-Goos," voted to disband, no further improvement in local
politics being necessary or desirable. * * * Three years ago today the
pedestrian subway under Tremont St. at Park Street opened.

Sun rises: 6:56 High water: 5:49 A.M.

sets: 4:13 6:14 P.M.

TUESDAY. Only 16 more shopping days to you-know-what. * * * In
1818, one J. Sylvan who called himself "The rain water doctor, enemy
of human diseases" set himself up in business in West Roxbury. But not
for long. ♦ * ♦ There were exactly 10,354 persons in the city engaged
in the making of men's clothing this day in 1880. * * * Point to re-
member: In Spring and Winter rapidly rising temperature precedes rain.

Sun rises: 6:57 High water: 6:49 A.M.

sets: 4:13 7:18 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Feast of St. Nicholas. * * * Ski Show starts today at
the Garden. * * * 3-day "Christmas Round the World Exhibit and
Bazaar' of International Institute opens. ♦ * * Up to 1634 the General
Court was made up of all freemen. This made such a large body that it
was necessary to hold the meetings in the open. In order to ensure fair
weather, all ministers were required to lead prayers for it for three
successive Sundays preceding any regularly scheduled sessions.

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Sun rises:
sets:

6:58
4:13

High water:

7:47 A.M.
8:18 P.M.

THURSDAY. Hanukkah (Jewish). * * * Governor Bellingham died
in 1672. That the Governor was a man of action was shown by the cir-
cumstances of his second marriage. The lady was betrothed to a friend
of his, "when on a sudden the Governor treated with her and obtained
her for himself." He then performed the marriage ceremony himself, as
well.

Sun rises:
sets:

6:59
4:13

High water:

8:42 A.M.
9:15 P.M.

FRIDAY. Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Mother of Jesus
Christ. * ♦ * Obsolete American custom: today in 1808 Joseph Under-
wood was fined $40 for casting three votes. ♦ * * First great anti-
slavery speech of Wendell Phillips this day in 1837 at Faneuil Hall.
* * * Gen Armando Vittorio Diaz of the Italian Army entertained
lavishly in Boston this day in 1921.

Sun

rises: 7:00
sets: 4:13

High water: 9:35 A.M.
10:09 P.M.

SATURDAY. Today in 1640 there was banished from the colony a
very stubborn soul who persisted in believing himself free from original
sin. ♦ ♦ * This day in 1920 Gov. Calvin Coolidge was in a Providence
one-arm lunch, a mug of coffee hooked on one finger, looking for a seat.
* * * Bostonian Joseph P. Kennedy named Ambassador to England in
1937.

On October 1, 1639, the General
Court ordered the discontinuance of the
vain custom of drinking one to another,
and that upon these and other grounds:
1. It was a thing of no good use.
It was an inducement to drunken-
ness, and occasion of quarreling
and bloodshed.

It occasioned much waste of wine
and beer.
4. It was very troublesome to many,
especially the masters and mis-
tresses of the feast, who were
forced thereby to drink more of
than they would.
"Yet divers (even godly persons) were
very loath to part with this idle cere-
mony, though (when disputation was
tendered) they had no list, nor, indeed
could find any arguments, to maintain
it. Such power hath custom."

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DECEMBER

So abominable is the New England climate,
That it's impossible to write about it, let

alone rhyme it.
You can only sit still, thinking about it.
Wishing you were sitting thinking about it

somewhere in Bermuda, drinking about

it.

Sun rises: 7:00 High water: 10:24 A.M.

sets: 4:12 10:58 P.M.

SUNDAY. Ten Year War with the French and Indians declared all off
this day in 1679. * * * Excitement over red flag in Charlestown in 1901
calmed with words: "That's an auction." * ♦ ♦ Jordan Marsh and 21
other Greater Boston stores merged as Hahn Department Stores, Inc., in
1928.

Sun rises: 7:01 High water: 11:11 A.M.

sets: 4:12 11:45 P.M.

MONDAY. The world can tremble from natural causes, too, evidently,
for this day in 1727 Governor Burnet proclaimed a Fast to be kept on
the 21st of this month "throughout this province on account of the late
surprising and amazing earthquakes and the repeated shaking of the
Earth."

Sun rises: 7:02 High water: 11:56 A.M.

sets: 4:12

TUESDAY. According to Malcolm Townsend "The tracing of the word
Boston elicits that in the seventh century a pious monk known as St.
Botolph or Bot-holp (Boat-help) founded a church in what is now Lijicoln-
shire, in England. A town grew up around it which was called Botolph's
town, Bot-os-ton, finally Boston."

Sun rises: 7:03 High water: 1:37 A.M.

sets: 4:12 2:02 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. This month in 1697: "All the bay was frozen over quite
out to sea; so as it was common to go horse and man over all the ferries
for two months. The main channel in Boston Harbor did not open till the
first of March." Sleighs and sleds passed a great part of the time upon
the ice from Boston as far as Nantasket . . . L Street Brownies just
chopped, chopped, and chopped.

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Sun rises:

7:04
4:12

High water:

1:15 A.M.
1:24 P.M.

THURSDAY. Eleanora Sears, Boston sportswoman, walked home from
Providence in eleven hours and five minutes on this day in 1925 and she
didn't have to, either. * ♦ ♦ Today in 1931 the Federal National Bank
folded, thus gladdening the hearts of thousands who would not have to
worry about Christmas shopping, after all.

Sun

sets:

7:04
4:13

High water:

2:00 A.M.
2:08 P.M.

FRIDAY. Concert tonight for the benefit of political refugees from
Europe — no, not an announcement, — an 1849 item. Hungarians that time.
* * * Daily Advertiser of 1851 : "The watch of East Boston was mustered
in hot haste ... to arrest a gentleman who had opened his own store so
early as to have been supposed to be a burglar." ♦ ♦ ♦ Subway from
South Station to Broadway opened today in 1915.

Sun rises: 7:05
sets: 4:13

High water: 2:42 A.M.
2:54 P.M.

SATURDAY. Boston Tea Party, 1773. * * * Birth date of poet Whit-
tier 134 years ago. ♦ * ♦ Wendell Phillips assaulted this day in 1860
upon emerging from Music Hall after a discourse on "Mobs and Educa-
tion." * * ♦ Mellie Dunham, Maine's champ fiddler, in Boston today
in 1925, riding right out of the world on "Money Musk."

The mere sight of a sign advertising
the "Victory and Massasoit Bowling and
Billiard Halls" was enough to put the
Traveller editorial column into the fol-
lowing dither on Dec. 13, 1849: "Ah,
young man! If you allow your feet to
tread those enchanted halls, you will ere
long find the victory theirs, and a vic-
tory which will leave you cast down
and wounded a poor helpless, worth-
less, miserable cripple doomed to an
early and dishonorable grave, into
which you will fall, unwept, unanointed,
unknelled. Beware then of Bowling and
Billiard Halls; for attractive as they
may appear by the aid of light and
music, jovial companions and stimulat-
ing drinks, they are but whited sep-
ulchres full of dead men's bones."

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DECEMBER

Grandpa Remembers
Can you remember when the Copley
Had a lonely, lovely monopoly
On things full of horror, stress and strain,
Such as that chiller, the old Ghost Train?

R. S.

Sun rises: 7:06 High water: 3:29 A.M.

sets: 4:13 3:42 P.M.

SUNDAY. Singo Sorti became the first man to be electrocuted in Massa-
chusetts at 12 :30 this morning in 1901. ♦ * * Submarine S-4 submerged
in test, failed to rise in 1927. Crew dead when raised 36 hours later.
* * * New headquarters of the Harry E. Burroughs Newsboys' Founda-
tion dedicated today in 1928 at 10 Somerset St.

Sun rises: 7:07 High water: 4:15 A.M.

sets: 4:13 4:34 P.M.

MONDAY. If you like Xmas carols, why not turn on your radio some
night? ♦ ♦ ♦ A literal first edition today in 1720 of The Boston Gazette,
second newspaper to be published in New England. * ♦ ♦ The moon
was eclipsed by the sun in 1926 today for the last time until 2326 A.D.

Once, on a dare,
I walked through City Sq.
R. S.

Sun rises: 7:07 High water: 5:04 A.M.

sets: 4:14 5:24 P.M.

TUESDAY. Weather: Cold, with high pressure areas moving slowly
down Washington St. towards Filene's Basement. ♦ ♦ ♦ This is undoubt-
edly the dullest day of the year as far as Boston is concerned. We can't
speak for the Indians, but the whites have apparently been sitting around
on this day for more than three hundred years wondering if they can get
away with giving Aunt Minnie that terrific camisole that Cousin Elsie
gave them last year. Phooie to such a day!

Sun rises: 7:08 High water: 5:54 A.M.

sets: 4:14 6:16 P.M.

WEDNESDAY. Gov. Andros arrived in Boston today in 1686, assisted
by a 50-gun frigate. ♦ ♦ * The Traveller "safely predicts an immense
auditory," for Miss Charlotte Cushman's reading of Henry VIII at Tre-
mont Temple this night in 1849. * * * First "lightless night" in 1917.

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Sun rises:
sets:

7:08
4:15

High water:

6:44 A.M.
7:08 P.M.

THURSDAY. St. Thomas Day. * * * The winter solstice. * * * New
England's Birthday. ♦ * * The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth today in
1620. ♦ » * Ann Eliza, nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, who did not
believe in divorce, lectured at Tremont Temple this night of 1874, while
13 of the apostle's daughters sat in the front row and made faces at her.

St. Thomas gray, St. Thomas gray
The longest night, the shortest day

Sun rises:
sets:

7:09
4:15

High water:

7:32 A.M.
8:02 P.M.

FRIDAY. Tebeth (Jewish). ♦ * * Passed in Common Council this day
in 1825 an ordinance providing that "no person shall shake or cleanse
carpets on the Common within ten rods of either of the malls under
penalty of not less than one nor more than three dollars." * * * In
1900, Thomas F. Adams was in the jug for the larceny of a 60-lb. tub of
butter from an express team on Leverett St.

Sun rises:
sets:

7:09
4:16

High water:

8:20 A.M.
8:52 P.M.

SATURDAY. This day in 1874 there lived at 16 Seneca St. a woman
named Harris and nineteen (19) dogs. ♦ * ♦ About this time in 1920,
the Boston press was informed "Joyce West has hiked the 500 miles from
Boston to Montreal. She did it on $2, slept in fields, ate canned foods,
boomed Harding for President, was given a lift every now and then and
had some novel experiences with men who were not pleasant to meet."

Merry Christmas!

A little greeting which the "Great and
General Courte" sent out in 1659: "For
preventing disorders arising ... by
reason of some still observing such
festivalls as were superstitiously kept in
other countrys, to the great dishonor of
God, and offence of others, it is there-
fore ordered . . . that whoever shall be
found observing any such days as
Christmas or the like, either by for-
bearing of labour, feasting, or any other
way . . . shall pay five shillings as a
fine."

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DECEMBER

Sing Noel
Peace on earth, but in the flue
Papa's stuck and can't get loose.
The tree won't stand for love or glue,
The lights won't work — oh, what's the use!

Sun rises: 7:10 High water: 9:08 A.M.

sets: 4:16 9:41 P.M.

SUNDAY. DonH forget to hang up your stocking. ♦ * * This day in
1799 the sad tidings reached Boston that George Washington was dead.
Federal Theatre was closed until January 10, when a memorial perform-
ance was held. ♦ ♦ ♦ This day in 1900 the last horse car finished its
last run. Marlboro St. was the historic spot. * * * In 1931, Plennie L.
Wingo, who was walking backwards around the world, backed into Bos-
ton under a full head of steam.

Sun rises: 7:10 High water: 9:54 A.M.

sets: 4:17 10:28 P.M.

MONDAY. Christmas Day. A holiday which comes but once a year.
* * * Put your stocking back on, and keep your cigarette butts away
from the tree. ♦ * * This is a good day not to think of the February 1st

bills.

Our wish to you: that Xmas-y
Renewal of child's Xtacy.

Sun rises: 7:11 High water: 10:41 A.M.

sets: 4:17 11:15 P.M.

TUESDAY. The only cure for the way you feel today is twenty-four
hours of sleep. * * * "Xmas Storm" did $5,000,000 damage in 1909.
Highest tides since 1851, too. * * * At this time in 1901 it was soberly
reported by one New England paper that F. Marion Crawford had "re-
cently spent two weeks at Newport last week." The fast social life, prob-
ably. * * * In 1931 James McCarthy, aged 11, was arrested in Franklin
Park for maltreating a duck.

Sun rises: 7:11 High water: 11:29 A.M.

sets: 4:18

WEDNESDAY. Weather: No change. * * * First boatload of 49'rs, 11
passengers to be exact, left Boston today on the ship Salstillo to join the
gold rush. Guess what year? ♦ * * This day in 1843, the Tremont The-
atre was purchased for religious purposes and renamed Tremont Temple.

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Sun rises:
sets:

7:11
4:19

High water:

12:02 A.M.
12:16 P.M.

THURSDAY. Childermas. * * * You really should try to get back to
work today or tomorrow. ♦ ♦ ♦ "The annual meeting of the Penitent
Female's Refuge Society" was "holden at the new Vestry of Park Street
Meeting House" this evening in 1825. * * ♦ The steamship Belfast of
the Eastern lines made the last run out of Boston to Bangor, Me., to-
night in 1935, ending a service of 112 years.

Sun rises:
sets:

7:12
4:20

High water:

12:52 A.M.
1:06 P.M.

FRIDAY. This day in 1657 Damon Mahoone was fined twenty shillings
for entertaining two Irish women "and is to quitt his house of them
forthwith at his perill." * ♦ * First services of Old North Church today
in 1723. * * * In 1933, this was Boston's coldest day of two centuries,
17 below zero. * * * Two years ago today the full score of Sibelius'
"Origin of Fire" was sent from Germany to Boston by radio photography
and used by the Boston Symphony.

Sun rises:
sets:

7:12
4:20

High water:

1:43 A.M.
2:00 P.M.

SATURDAY. Weather: We are now hack to where we were when we
started and the weather is, too. Hoping you are not the same. ♦ ♦ ♦ To-
day in 1630, Governor Winthrop decided to make "Newtowne" (Cam-
bridge) the metropolis of the Province of Massachusetts. Next day he
changed his mind. * * * On sale at 8 Water St. in 1825 "Ermine Capes
or Vandykes, a handsome and very comfortable article for the season."
Which nobody can deny. * * * In 1904 the East Boston Subway was
opened, and 32,000 people paid fares on the first day.

On Dec. 26, 1796, Boston was pretty
excited over the opening of the "New"
Haymarket Theatre. This event marked
the beginning of a bitter rivalry be-
tween the Haymarket and the older Fed-
eral Street Theatre. Of the latter it was
said "Each shareholder . . . had what
was known as his night, when he not
only paid all the running expenses, but
took a personal pride in having the
house full to repletion. To this end as
many tickets were sold as could be, and
the residue given away to those who
would make the pledge never to enter
the Haymarket Theatre."

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DECEMBER

A Thought for New Year's Eve
Problem: do the little men
Who come on the eleventh vodka
See very little men when they
Have reached the stage of feeling oddka?

Sun rises: 7:13 High water: 2:34 A.M.

sets: 4:21 2:54 P.M.

SUNDAY. In 1890 it was announced: "An informal reception will be
given at the Massachusetts Home for Intemperate Women on New Year's
Day." * * ♦ The prudent citizen will put his New Year's resolutions
down on paper as they occur to him. It is no end embarrassing to awaken
on Jan. 1, not knowing what you're not doing this year. This seems to
be getting a little involved, but what we're trying to say is — Happy New
Year!

I think I'd rather get the sack
Than write another Almanack.

A. P.

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BOSTON HOLIDAYS

New Year

Washington's Birthday
•Evacuation Day

Patriots' Day

Memorial Day
*Bunker Hill Day

Independence Day

Labor Day

Columbus Day
Armistice Day

Thanksgiving

Christmas

January 1 (Sunday)
February 22 (Wednesday)
March 17 (Friday)
April 19 (Wednesday)
May 30 (Tuesday)
June 17 (Saturday)
July 4 (Tuesday)
September 4 (Monday)
October 12 (Thursday)
November 11 (Saturday)
November 30 (Thursday)
December 25 (Monday)

* Evacuation Day observed only in South Boston.

* Bunker Hill Day observed only in Charlestown.

FLAG DAYS

By order of the City Council it is the duty of the City Messenger to
have the national colors displayed upon the public flagstaifs on the fol-
lowing days:

Franklin's Birthday
Lincoln's Birthday
Washington's Birthday
Evacuation Day
Patriots' Day
Grant's Birthday
Memorial Day
Anniversary of Adoption of

National Colors
Bunker Hill Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Anniversary of Founding of

Boston
Columbus Day
Armistice Day

January 17 (Tuesday)
February 12 (Sunday)
February 22 (Wednesday)
March 17 (Friday)
April 19 (Wednesday)
April 27 (Thursday)
May 30 (Tuesday)

June 14 (Wednesday)
June 17 (Saturday)
July 4 (Tuesday)
September 4 (Monday)

September 17 (Sunday)
October 12 (Thursday)
November 11 (Saturday)

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CHRISTIAN MOVABLE FEASTS AND FASTS

Circumcision

Septuagesima Sunday

Shrove Tuesday

Ash Wednesday

First Sunday in Lent

Palm Sunday

Good Friday

Easter

Low Sunday

Ascension Thursday

Pentecost (Whitsunday)

Trinity Sunday

Corpus Christi

Assumption of Blessed Virgin

All Saints' Day

First Sunday of Advent

Immaculate Conception of

Blessed Virgin
Christmas

January 1 (Sunday)

February 5

February 21

February 22

February 26

April 2

April 7

April 9 (Sunday)

April 16

May 18

May 28

June 4

June 8 (Thursday)

August 15 (Tuesday)

November 1 (Wednesday)

December 3

December 8 (Friday)
December 25 (Monday)

JEWISH HOLIDAYS AND FASTS

Fast of 10th of Tebeth
Fast of Esther
Purim
Passover:

First Days

Last Days
Feast of Weeks (ShVuoth)

Fast of 17th of Tamuz

Fast of 9th of Ab

New Year (Rosh Hashonah)

Fast of Gedalia

Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

Tabernacles, 7 days

Sh'mini Azereth

Rejoicing of Law

Hanukkah, 8 days

Fast of Tebeth

January 1 (Sunday)
March 2 (Thursday)
March 5 (Sunday)

April 4-5

April 10-11

May 24-25 (Wednesday and

Thursday)
July 4 (Tuesday)
July 25 (Tuesday)
September 14-15 (Thursday and

Friday)
September 17 (Sunday)
September 23 (Saturday)
September 28 (starting Thursday)
October 5 (Thursday)
October 6 (Friday)
December 7 (starting Thursday)
Decemebr 22 (Friday)
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New

Last Quarter

First Quarter

Full

PHASES OF THE MOON 1939

January 5 — Full Moon
12 — Last Quarter
20 — New Moon
28— First Quarter

February 4 — Full Moon

11 — ^Last Quarter
19 — New Moon
27— First Quarter

March 5 — Full Moon

12 — Last Quarter
21 — New Moon
28— First Quarter

April 4 — Full Moon

11 — Last Quarter
19 — ^New Moon
26 — First Quarter

May 3— Full Moon

11 — Last Quarter
19 — New Moon
25 — First Quarter

June 2 — Full Moon

10 — Last Quarter
17— New Moon
24 — First Quarter

July 1— Full Moon

9 — ^Last Quarter
16 — New Moon
23 — First Quarter
31— Full Moon

August 8 — Last Quarter

15 — New Moon
21 — First Quarter
29— Full Moon

September 6 — Last Quarter
13 — New Moon
20— First Quarter
28— Full Moon

October 6 — Last Quarter
12 — New Moon
20— First Quarter
28— Full Moon

November 4 — ^Last Quarter
11 — New Moon
18— First Quarter
26— Full Moon

December 3 — ^Last Quarter
10 — New Moon
18 — First Quarter
26— Full Moon

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LEVI HUBBARD —

an Eccentric to Lay the Ghost

Levi Hubbard, otherwise known to his 17th century contemporaries
as the smashing member of the General Court, is the local candidate for
canonization as a "character." With the proper exploitation from his-
torians, he might attain the stature of a Paul Bunyan or a Johnny Apple-
seed — regional supermen both of them, and records of Levi's time show
that he had what it takes. He comes to life in James R. Newhall's
Ye Great and General Court in Collonie Times; it may well be that he
was conceived principally in that historian's imagination, but his exploits
are no less fascinating for want of foundation. Newhall did the spade
work, all that is needed now is a Cervantes.

Hubbard was representative for New Towne (Cambridge) in the
legislature, and that is all right in itself; however, he appears to have
been seized at moments with a superhuman frenzy which manifested itself
in an impulse to hurl whatever objects were handiest — an inkwell, a
beer mug, a boulder. The early Boston colony was notorious for its
intolerance in matters both clerical and secular: certainly Hubbard's
unorthodox conduct was no exception.

His malady first attracted attention, says Newhall, "during a debate
on an order requiring monuments to be erected to designate the location
of wolf-pits." Our hero had himself once fallen into one of these pits,
where he was found the next morning crouched up in one corner, almost
dead with fright, while in another corner was crouched a she-wolf, also
nearly dead with fright. The debate proceeded sluggishly until Hubbard
arose and by a violent clap of his hands indicated some disordered
condition. Seizing the jug which contained the beer he had brought
for his noon refreshment, he hurled it with tremendous force against the
opposite wall. Now he was seized and subdued; it required some tall
oratory to persuade the House Members that he was anything less than
a lunatic. Hubbard's explanation ran thus: it had simply struck him
that the monuments would not only show people where the wolf-pits
were but likewise give the same information to the wolves themselves,
thereby defeating the whole purpose.

The beer mug episode might have been forgiven, but when not long
after the miscreant sent an inkwell flying across the chamber, hopelessly
bespattering ofl&cial records, he was ordered to the stocks where he might
reconsider his destructive tendencies. There he passed an historic day:
first appeared a "great motherly swine" and her young, who took it into
their heads to wallow and moil under the hapless prisoner's nose. "Then
a long-haired, dirty-mouthed lad appeared, leading his long-haired, dirty-

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mouthed sister, and they both stopped and pointed at him and hissed,
as they had seen others do to their father who was in the same predica-
ment a few days before." All of the good man's enemies seemed to turn
up for the occasion: a bull who had received a hard-shell pumpkin
square on the muzzle, an Indian who had been gratuitously presented
with a horse-shoe thrown at his head, and a legion of divers beasts and
men all nursing grievances against the irresponsible Hubbard. These
made his day miserable, as though the confines of the stocks were not
enough. Toward evening it began to rain a cutting sleet; he was left
to himself at last, to ponder on life's mutations.

He reappears, the possessed Levi in the annals of the Honorable and
Ancient Artillery Company, which are in themselves no mean feat of
picaresque narration. "They were uniformed in a faire manner, all
haveing yello breeches of leathr, with blew ribbins knotted at ye knees,
also red leggins and black shews and bigg shining buckles. They had
doublets of green, with strips of yello sewed on. Butt their coates were
mostlie of brown or gray, tho som were like Joseph his coat, being of
manie colours, each suiting himself in that garment, ye Captn hauing
sayd yt sometymes they might train onlie in their doublets. But ye coats
all had high millitarie collars made stiff wth buckram; and they were
soe high, that often as they made a false step while marching along,
their backs rising a little, ye collars wd push their caps from their heads.
And once, while marching downe a stony hil, so manie were pushed off,
yt Captn Kayne sayd seeminglie there were more caps vppon ye ground
than on their heads, and he would, bef oar another trayning, see to haueing
ye collars cutt down; for they not onlie pushed off the caps but likewise
made their cues stick out so strait behinde that they lookd like little
steering poles; wch conceit made mch merrymnt. Their wiggs were
mightie in syze, and ye cues wound wth eal skin. Som of ye wiggs were
white, som gray and som of dyvers colours, as to that matter, for som
not being able to get real wiggs, were faine to dress yr heads in ye
skins of little foxes or raccoons, winding ye tayls for cues."

Here comes Levi — "Ye cheifest membrs of ye Cort were present,
dyvrs of them, indeed, being of ye Companie. Mr. Hubbard, who hath
bin nicknamd ye smashing membr, was there, and must needs xrcise
himselfe in his odd way, bringing scandall on ye occacion. When ye
jewesharpes playd bee was soe amaze yt bee let fly a bigg roll of tabacca
and hit one of ye young Indjans on ye head, who thinking it sent as a
reward for his skill on ye instrument, was mch pleased and playd all ye
hardr.

"Ye Companie haueing marchd beyond ye rayles on ye Rocksberry
roade, wd paws in ye shade for rest and refreshmt. While soe doing, one
of Mr Hubbard his ffits seizing him, he hurld a great clam wth mch

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force, whch hitting a tree, shyd off into ye bushes and bouncd into a
nest of little wingd devills, or as Mr Cobet calld ym, hornets. Their
pestigeous stings made som cry out who wd haue met ye fire of bullets
wthout moveing. Som roared for very agonie of payn; som hopped and
jumped about like distracted Indjans; some rolled on ye ground; som
ran to ye little brook for releif of ye terrible burnings. ... Ye Ensigne
was in great rage, knowing ye cause of ye mischief, and wth drawn
sword rushed vppon Mr Hubbard, and wd haue don him harme had
he not bin restrained. Som others, being a little heady, mayhap from
ye drink they had taken, threw off their coats as if to fight som body
or som thing, they knew not what. And there was mch adew befour
peace was restord."

Heroes seldom die in bed; Levi died as he had lived, a victim to
that inexplicable mania for hurling things. But his career was not all
buffoonery: he rose to the defense of both Mrs. Hutchinson and Roger
Williams, and from an initial sympathy with the persecuted Quakers
came gradually to embrace their beliefs. Thereafter he was ostracized
by the Bay Colony; his lands were seized and it became expedient to
retire to Rhode Island, where he opened a tavern and prospered.

It was in a Narragansett settlement that the end came. He had sold
a wooden rake to a savage who proceeded to employ the same in dig-
ging clams; naturally enough the implement came apart. Accompanied by
his squaw, the savage appeared demanding retribution — fair enough still,
but the discussion became a battle of words and grunts; at the crucial
moment, as luck would have it, that expression of angelic simplicity
crossed Levi's face. He let go with the stone hammer he held in his
hand, catching the Indian square in the belly and bowling him over
backwards into a clump of barberries. The squaw did the honorable
thing after that; she pitched a tomahawk in defense of her lord's good
name, and her aim was perfect. That was the last of Levi. But his soul
goes marching on, no doubt throwing things in a way to petrify the
Heavenly Company.

W. F.

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NELSON HUGHES COh\?.%HY, INC,

NEW YORK

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